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Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power
- Every encounter demands too much, tears the nerves, drains the will, and the spectre of something as small as an unanswered letter arouses such disproportionate guilt that one's sanity becomes an object of speculation among one's acquaintances. To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us ... See more
from Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power by Joan Didion
sari added 8mo ago
- innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
from Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power by Joan Didion
lili added 1y ago
Joan Didion: On Self-Respect, 1961