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WHY DO WE SMILE? WHY do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the
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“Let other trees do the work of the world. Let the Beech stand, where still it holds its ground”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“the dreary soon-to-be radiologists and urologists in half an inch of eyeliner bursting into gleeful song—was to see what they might have done with their lives had their lives belonged only to them.”
― The Dutch House
― The Dutch House
“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you’d been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you’re suspended, knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.”
― The Dutch House
― The Dutch House
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
to avoid facing their own souls.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them." In the midst of two or three hundred, the divine presence becomes more problematical. And when the numbers run into thousands, the likelihood of God being there, in the consciousness of every individual, declines almost to the vanishing point. For such is the nature of an excited crowd (and every crowd is automatically self-excited) that, where two or three thousand are gathered together, there is an absence not merely of deity, but even of common humanity.”
― The Devils of Loudun
― The Devils of Loudun
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