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“I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.”

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Book:The Buddha of Suburbia
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The Buddha of Suburbia

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Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi is a distinguished British playwright, screenwriter, and author, born on December 5, 1954. He has made substantial contributions to literature and theater with his distinctive voice and insightful exploration of contemporary issues. Kureishi's work often delves into themes of multiculturalism, identity, and social class, reflecting his own experiences growing up in a diverse community. more

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“Dispassionately, reasonably, he contemplated the failutre that his life must appear to be. He had wanted friendship and the closeness of friendship that might hold him in the race of mankind; he had had two friends, one of whom had died senselessly before he was known, the other of whom had now withdrawn so distantly into the ranks of the living that... He had wanted the singleness and the still connective passion of marriage; he had had that, too, and he had not known what to do with it, and it had died. He had wanted love; and he had had love, and had relinquished it, had let it go into the chaos of potentiality. Katherine, he thought. "Katherine." And he had wanted to be a teacher, and he had become one; yet he knew, he had always known, that for most of his life he had been an indifferent one. He had dreamed of a kind of integrity, of a kind of purity that was entire; he had found compromise and the assaulting diversion of triviality. He had conceived wisdom, and at the end of the long years he had found ignorance. And what else? he thought. What else? What did you expect? he asked himself.”

LifeFailureExistentialism
Book:France: Summer 1940
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