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“… because this poem directly portrays a man capable of having an ideal and, second, once he bas the ideal, of believing in it and, believing in it, of blindly devoting his whole life to it. That doesn’t always happen in our time.” 249.

“A fool with a heart and no brains is as unhappy a fool as a fool with brains but no heart. An old truth. I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.” (81)

“Thus to enter a realm of immediate experience is most stimulating for those who have done their utmost in the personal and rational spheres of life and yet have found no meaning and no satisfaction there… The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.” (65-66).

- conceptual bracket creep
- the Resilience Blind Spot
- mental health —> positively skewed distribution
- the Resilience Trajectory

“… a consciousness of which one knows nothing seems to me a good deal more absurd than something mental that is unconscious.” (6)

“Who would have thought I would have found pleasure in shedding tears!— that I would love someone who shows me that I am no better than a fool” (54).

“The first foretaste of life was mysterious and alluring, and it was so delicious to make its acquaintance. In those days someone unknown to us, still seemed to dwell behind every bush, behind every tree; fairyland was merged with reality.” (29)

“Dawn was awake to open her purple gates in the glimmering east and bathe her forecourt in roseate glory; the stars were routed, and Lucifer brought up the rear, as last of all he abandoned his watch in the brightening sky.” 52.