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“Well, I am so sensitive and I am very fragile but so is everything else, and living with a dangerous amount of sensitivity is sort of what I have to do sometimes, and it is so very much better than living with no gusto at all. And I’d rather live with a tender heart, because that is the key to feeling the beat of all of the other hearts.”
― Little Weirds
― Little Weirds
“Make a place available to the eyes, and in certain ways it is no longer available to the imagination.”
― Let Me Tell You What I Mean
― Let Me Tell You What I Mean
“There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.”
― Misery
― Misery
“There can be no doubt, I thought, pushing aside the newspaper, that our mean lives, unsightly as they are, put on splendour and have meaning only under the eyes of love”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
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