Jed Rubenfeld Quotes

#1. On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk, acting as they gesticulate. The cause is invariably a woman.

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#2. Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

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#3. The most exquisite joy is a sting to the heart, and love
love is a crisis of the soul.

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#4. The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?

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#5. What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.

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#6. A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

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#7. Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.

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#8. Mr Banwell had mastered the great truth that truth itself, like buildings, can be manufactured.

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#9. Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

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#10. No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.

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#11. For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

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#12. Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.

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#13. If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.

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#14. I know he is
sensitive
on some points, Detective, but you must bear in mind how hard it is for an honest man to do his work in relative obscurity, while dishonest men attain wealth and renown. That is why corruption is so pernicious. It breaks the will of good men.

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#15. All it takes is instinct.

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#16. There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's

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#17. A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.

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