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Book: Fresh Complaint
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ Fresh Complaint
One's country is like oneself. The more you learned about it, the more there was to be ashamed of.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ Fresh Complaint
One's country was like one's self. The more you learned about it, the more there was to be ashamed of.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ Fresh Complaint
When Annie flirted she didn't always admit to herself that she was flirting. Sometimes she preferred to suspend her mental faculties so that she could flirt, as it were, without her mind watching. It was as if her body and mind separated, her body stepping behind a screen to remove its clothing while her mind, on the other side of the screen, paid no attention.".
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ Fresh Complaint
That was the ideal: to remain dutiful to a preservationist ethos while not depriving yourself of modern creature comforts.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ Fresh Complaint
Pay no attention to the terrors that visit you in the night. The psyche is at its lowest ebb then, unable to defend itself. The desolation that envelops you feels like truth, but isn't. It's just mental fatigue masquerading as insight.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ Fresh Complaint
But it's mostly the act itself that brings relief, the self-forgetfulness, the diving and plunging into other lives.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ Fresh Complaint
Just when she'd got her head on straight, her body started falling apart.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ Fresh Complaint
Pay no attention to the terrors that visit you in the night. The psyche is at its lowest ebb then, unable to defend itself. The desolation that envelops you feels like truth, but isn't. It's just mental fatigue masquerading as insight."
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