“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“Most people confuse “self-knowledge” with knowledge of their conscious ego personalities. Anyone”
― The Undiscovered Self
― The Undiscovered Self
“I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“Happiness and contentment, equability of mind and meaningfulness of life – these can be experienced only by the individual and not by a State, which, on the one hand, is nothing but a convention agreed to by independent individuals, and on the other, continually threatens to paralyse and suppress the individual.”
― The Undiscovered Self
― The Undiscovered Self
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