65 Quotes About Private-life

  • Author Alain de Botton
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    The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding, even if, as Proust warns is, 'when we discover the true lives of other people, the real world beneath the world of appearance, we get as many surprises as on visiting a house of plain exterior which is full of hidden treasures, torture-chambers or skeletons.

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  • Author Meg Wolitzer
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    They should hand out vibrators if they're going to demand so much of you that you can't find time for a private life.

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  • Author Paul Levine
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    I have a confession to make.I hate voir dire.I despise prying into other people's lives because I wouldn't want them prying into mine.

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  • Author Ann Patchett
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    He wondered now if everyone had a private life. He wondered if his wife had one. It was possible that all those years he had been alone, never knowing that a complete world existed and no one spoke of it.

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