No matter how hard you work, you cannot stop getting old."
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happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough
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Javanese colonists brought their Hindu caste system with them to Bali, though caste divisions were never as brutally enforced here as they once were in India. Still, the Balinese recognize a complex social hierarchy (there are five divisions of Brahmans alone
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And then there was David.
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She shrugs: “Magari.” Another untranslatable bit of Italian slang, meaning something between “hopefully” and “in your dreams, sucker.”
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“So sadness is a place?” Giovanni asked. “Sometimes people live there for years,” I said.
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Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
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So a close friend, in Italian, is one you that can wear tightly, snug against your skin, and that is what my little Swedish friend Sofie is becoming to me.
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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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When a friend complimented my new look, all I could say, grimly, was, “Operation Self-Esteem—Day Fucking One.”)