Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

Jane Austen

Mots clés wealth poverty attachment

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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.

Simone Weil

Mots clés reality attachment detachment simone-weil

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Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

John le Carré

Mots clés roots home homecoming homelessness anchoring attachment belonging

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It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

Neil Gaiman

Mots clés truth perspective death death-and-dying etiquette attachment significance self-censorship

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From the dear comes grief;
From the dear comes fear.
If you're freed from the dear
You'll have no grief, let alone fear.

Anonymous

Mots clés fear loss grief attachment buddhist v-212

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Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the game ... [C]lever [women] bide their time -- make themselves indispensable first, and then se font prier [=play hard to get]. Clever -- but I can't do it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Mots clés honesty deception tricks men women marriage attachment cleverness permanency

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If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?"

"Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

Ellis Peters

Mots clés roots home homecoming completion stillness homelessness anchoring attachment belonging arrival fullfilment journey-s-end

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People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

Lionel Shriver

Mots clés adaptation attachment

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He was already intuiting that attachment - if only to a squirt gun - made him vulnerable.

Lionel Shriver

Mots clés attachment vulnerable

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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

Lionel Shriver

Mots clés life loss attachment

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