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"They are always together, except for climate, and light, and the fragments of time each man know that are of glory, of reaching destination in the opposite of one's kind. Benign and malignant are one in the living, in all things, except for these moments when the moving of time is halted by the infinite rise of heart, the immeasurable lift of spirit, the momentarily unending expansion of truth seeking truth, and....

"A number of things have been asking to get on paper, but they have been asking at unusual hours, so that by the time I have been ready to get them down on paper, they have been forgotten.

They ask, for instance, at two or three or four in the morning when I went to sleep.

Last night, for instance, I knew the word: I knew it: and how smiling and kindly it was: how miraculous and ordinary: how beautifully ...

"Sometimes even instinct is overpowered by individuality--in creatures other than men, I mean. In men instinct is supposed to be controlled, But whether or not it ever actually is I leave to others. At any rate, the fundamental instinct of most--or all--creatures is to live. Each form of life has an instinctive technique of defense against other forms of life, as well against the elements."

"He began to laugh, at first quietly and then out loud. He laughed at himself--the wretched comedy of his grief. And then he laughed at everybody alive, and began to feel everything was going to be alright again. If you could laugh, you could live. If you could look at it that way, you could endure anything."