“Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“You understand... just what the Taoists mean when they say that soft is stronger than hard.”
― The World Without Us
― The World Without Us
“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
― Winnie-the-Pooh
― Winnie-the-Pooh
“When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
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