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I feel personally connected to this first and foremost because of the fact he kept this diary at the age I am now. Because he was so sensitive, curious and thoughtful, he was born to be exceptionally capable of intense depths of compassion and bravery which is the fuel of a revolutionary. The more I know about him the more certain I am he would be my person to have dinner with alive or dead…

“I will only take to my grave the sorrow of an unfinished song.” ❤️

Men are dirty dogs

“I am by far the most awful human being who has ever lived; however, that does not mean I will not also be the kindest.”!!! He’s making me laugh. And when he said he did not want to be misunderstood nor canonized and ended up being both..

“In order to be immortal, you have to die several times within a lifetime..”

I’m pretty interested in the story at this point and the execution is okay but I feel like I’m not particularly seduced by the characters, concepts or descriptions…so maybe that’s what I look for. To be seduced by at least some part of the story…very often reads as an essay and therefore doesn’t linger in my head when I put it down

I keep thinking about a quote from the first chapter that will stay with me for a long time:

“. . . Willard found himself at the gravesite suddenly and inextricably stricken with that sense of things that can descend upon the tender-hearted, even at the death of an enemy—that surely the spirit had been deeper, and the life more tragic, than he had ever imagined.”

So far perfectly captures the feeling I get visiting family in the Midwest every summer..the flat fields with one house every few miles and the old churches.. that’s how the prose feels.

“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people I have ever known.”