Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother’s was worth a pocket watch.
“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
Its only confusing if you believe it has to make sense.”
― Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Its only confusing if you believe it has to make sense.”
― Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
“Rationality was returning to deal with the mess that emotions had created.”
― The Rosie Effect
― The Rosie Effect
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