Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose? - Theodore Sturgeon

“Oh well. Chacun à son goût, as they say, which means—”
And she stopped me. “Please. Don’t translate. It couldn’t be phrased as well in English.”
I had been about to say “—which means Jack’s son has the gout.”

The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and … and earns. It’s a thing he can’t have when he’s very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it’s truly part of him as long as he lives.

That’s fairly common. We don’t believe anything we don’t want to believe.