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“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
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“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
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“Son, are you happy?
I don't mean to pry,
but do you dream of Heaven?
Have you ever wanted to die?”
― The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
I don't mean to pry,
but do you dream of Heaven?
Have you ever wanted to die?”
― The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
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