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Хуа Сюй

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15 августа 2024 г., 13:22

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The intimacy of friendship, he wrote, lies in the sensation of recognizing oneself in the eyes of another.

Stay True: A Memoir

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15 августа 2024 г., 13:22

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Friendship is about the willingness to know, rather than be known.

Stay True: A Memoir

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15 августа 2024 г., 18:12

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Writing offered a way to live outside the present, skipping over its textures and slowness, converting the present into language, thinking about language rather than being present at all.

Stay True: A Memoir

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15 августа 2024 г., 17:42

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Over time, it became harder to mourn together as we all found ourselves crawling through different stages of sadness, calibrated to our own triggers and intensities.

Stay True: A Memoir

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15 августа 2024 г., 17:34

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Harmony suggested the possibility of sublime order, of resolutions so eternal and true that we wouldn’t merely recognize beauty; we would feel it vibrating through our bodies.

Stay True: A Memoir

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15 августа 2024 г., 13:21

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Being true to yourself cannot happen in a vacuum. Constructing your personality is a game, one that requires you to joust with the expectations of others.

Stay True: A Memoir

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15 августа 2024 г., 13:20

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You make a world out of the things you buy. Everything you pick up is a potential gateway, a tiny, cosmetic change that might blossom into an entirely new you.

Stay True: A Memoir

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15 августа 2024 г., 13:19

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In the late 1980s, the philosopher Jacques Derrida delivered a series of seminar lectures on the subject of friendship. He was, at that point, one of the most famous philosophers in the world, having become synonymous with the idea of deconstruction. Derrida wanted to disrupt our drive to generate meaning through…

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Stay True: A Memoir

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15 августа 2024 г., 13:19

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Smoking offers a way to build natural breaks into conversation. Lighting a cigarette starts a timer.

Stay True: A Memoir

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15 августа 2024 г., 13:18

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We were in search of patterns that would bring the world into focus.

Stay True: A Memoir

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15 августа 2024 г., 13:18

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When you’re young, you are certain of your capacity to imagine a way out of the previous generation’s problems.

Stay True: A Memoir

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11 августа 2024 г., 13:50

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I defined who I was by what I rejected.

Stay True: A Memoir

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5 августа 2024 г., 11:22

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The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories.

Stay True: A Memoir

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3 августа 2024 г., 14:38

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Like many immigrants who prized education, my parents retained faith in the mastery of technical fields, like the sciences, where answers weren’t left to interpretation. You couldn’t discriminate against the right answer.

Stay True: A Memoir

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3 августа 2024 г., 14:38

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At that age, time moves slow. You’re eager for something to happen, passing time in parking lots, hands deep in your pockets, trying to figure out where to go next. Life happened elsewhere, it was simply a matter of finding a map that led there.

Stay True: A Memoir

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