“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
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“Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.”
― An American Childhood: A Poignant Memoir About Parents and Passion in 1950s Pittsburgh
― An American Childhood: A Poignant Memoir About Parents and Passion in 1950s Pittsburgh
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
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