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Book: Intimacy
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Hanif Kureishi _ Intimacy
If living is an art it is a strange one, an art of everything, and particularly of spirited pleasure.
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Hanif Kureishi _ Intimacy
How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once.
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Hanif Kureishi _ Intimacy
Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all. Still, rather a fool than a fascist.
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Hanif Kureishi _ Intimacy
Sé que el amor es un trabajo sucio; tienes que mancharte las manos. Si te mantienes a distancia, no sucede nada interesante. Además, debes encontrar la distancia adecuada entre las personas. Si están demasiado cerca, te aplastan; si están demasiado lejos, te abandonan. ¿Cómo mantenerlos en la situación adecuada?
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Hanif Kureishi _ Intimacy
Herir a alguien es un acto de involuntaria intimidad
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Hanif Kureishi _ Intimacy
But to be able to bear one's own mind, to wait while the inner storm of intolerable thoughts blows itself out, leaving one to contemplate the debris with some understanding--that is an enviable state of mind.
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Hanif Kureishi _ Intimacy
إنّك لا تتوقف عن حبّ شخص فقط لأنّك تكرهه.
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Hanif Kureishi _ Intimacy
But why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live, as if everybody else is inadequate? Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?
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Hanif Kureishi _ Intimacy
Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They'll sit on anyone's knee.
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Hanif Kureishi _ Intimacy
The world is made from our imagination ; our eyes enliven it , as our hands give it shape.Wanting makes it thrive; meaning is what you put in , not what you extract. you can only see what you are inclined to see, and no more. We have to make the new.
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Hanif Kureishi _ Intimacy
Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy.
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Hanif Kureishi _ Intimacy
Truth telling, therefore, has to be an ultimate value, until it clashes with another ultimate value, pleasure, at which point, to state the obvious, there is conflict.
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