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"they have condemned you for being mad. Just like that. Because the fear is already there, and has been for so long. The fear that all the edges and shapes and colors of the real world that have been built up again so painfully with such a real love can dwindle in a moment of doubt, and "suddenly go out" the way the moon would"

"Every now and then there comes a time when the neutral and impersonal forces of the world turn and come together in a thunder-crack of judgment. There is no reason for the sudden terror, the feeling of condemnation, except that circumstances all mirror the inner doubt, the inner fear"

"Why is it that I find it so difficult to accept the present moment, whole as an apple, without cutting and hacking at it to find a purpose, or setting it up on a shelf with other apples to measure its worth or trying to pickle it in brine to preserve it, and crying to find it turns all brown and is no longer simply the lovely apple I was given in the morning?"

"How impersonal that word 'millions' sounds! It conceals the fact - only too easily and perhaps too readily forgotten when round figures of victims are listed - that the murdered people were all individuals with their own lives to lead"

"How impersonal that word 'millions' sounds! It con-ceals the fact only too easily and perhaps too readily forgotten when round figures of victims are listed - that the murdered people were all individuals with their own lives to lead"

"I suppose it's natural to some people to please without trying, and others to always say and do the wrong thing in the wrong place."

"I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them. Why, Mother, Beth's eighteen, but we don't realize it, and treat her like a child, forgetting she's a woman."

“the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself”

it's actually so scary how familiar this is starting to sound

Nil desperandum

"laughter is ready when hearts are light "💐