Though I suppose people do reproduce sometimes for that reason—for insurance against later regret
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He would lament in his journals years later that he never felt the “timeless freedom of youth” but was instead haunted by the “overhanging threat of incompletion.”
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But the future sometimes approaches us more quickly than we expect, and the right moment doesn’t always announce itself with clarity.
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Experience teaches us that the world is no nursery.” I agree—the world isn’t a nursery. But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly whyyou sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.
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Every couple in the world has the potential over time to become a small and isolated nation of two—creating their own culture, their own language, and their own moral code, to which nobody else can be privy.
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Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person.
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went into a skid
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So sadness is a place?” Giovanni asked. “Sometimes people live there for years,” I said.
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You know how some people look like their dogs? I think maybe you always look like your men