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“The gifts we give say as much about us as the gifts we get and keep,”
“When reality becomes too senseless to make sense, the human mind will sometimes create its own”
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“The gifts we give say as much about us as the gifts we get and keep,”
― The Butterfly Garden
― The Butterfly Garden
“Really? We always have a choice, do we? What about the choices that other people make that end up completely changing your life, not theirs? Where is our choice there, then?”
― One by One
― One by One
“Don't misunderstand me," I said. "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. "When I was retarded I had lots of friends. Now I have no one. Oh, I know lots of people. Lots and lots of people. But I don't have any real friends. Not like I used to have in the bakery. Not a friend in the world who means anything to me, and no one I mean anything to.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
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