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“If we have to go to our deaths for the greater good of humankind, I will accept that like a lamb, because I haven't deserved this life or even enjoyed it.”

Life Death Sadness

Book:Beautiful World, Where Are You

Source: Beautiful World, Where Are You

“There is no such life, slipping free: life is itself the netting, holding people in place, making sense of things. It is not possible to tear away the constraints and simply carry on a senseless existence. People, other people, make it impossible. But without other people, there would be no life at all. Judgement, reproval, disappointment, conflict: these are the means by which people remain connected to one another.”

People Life

Book:Intermezzo

Source: Intermezzo

“Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.”

People Life Changes

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“There is more to life than great chess. Okay, great chess is still a part of life, and it can be a very big part, very intense, satisfying, and pleasant to dwell on in the mind's eye: but nonetheless, life contains many things. Life itself, he thinks, every moment of life, is as precious and beautiful as any game of chess ever played, if only you know how to live.”

Life Fiction Living Chess Literary Fiction Sally Rooney

Book:Intermezzo

Source: Intermezzo

“Maybe certain kinds of pain, at certain formative stages in life, just impress themselves into a person's sense of self permanently.”

Life Pain

Book:Beautiful World, Where Are You

Source: Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Under what conditions is life E durable?”

Life Loss

Book:Intermezzo

Source: Intermezzo

“¿Es mucho peor la vida aquí de lo que sería en la cama, o incluso en un lugar por completo distinto? No, la vida es exactamente igual. La vida es eso que llevas contigo, dentro de la cabeza.”

Life Feelings Emotions Introspective Normal People

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“[She] wonders what it would be like to belong here, to walk down the street greeting people and smiling. To feel that life was happening here, in this place, and not somewhere else far away.”

Life Normal People

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“Life is exactly the same. Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”

Life Normal People Sally Rooney

Author:Sally Rooney

“But it's difficult, when you've been through certain things, and people in your life don't necessarily believe you. Or they just don't want to know.”

Life Relationships Family Experiences

Book:Intermezzo

Source: Intermezzo

“Margaret is reminded of the way she felt when she first met Ivan: as if life slipped free of its netting. As if the netting itself had all along been an illusion, nothing real. An idea, which could not contain or describe the borderless all-enveloping reality of life.”

Life Relationships Fate Meeting People

Book:Intermezzo

Source: Intermezzo

“Life itself, he thinks, every moment of life, is as precious and beautiful as any game of chess ever played, if only you know how to live.”

Life Intermezzo

Author:Sally Rooney

“Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing.”

Love Life

Book:Beautiful World, Where Are You

Source: Beautiful World, Where Are You

“It doesn't always work, but I do my best. See what happens. Go on in any case living.”

Life Fiction Living Literary Fiction Sally Rooney

Book:Intermezzo

Source: Intermezzo

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