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“…no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.”

“He lay a long time listening to the others breathing in their sleep while he contemplated the wildness about him, the wildness within.”

“You’ll be late for your own funeral.”

“‘And when the event, the big change in your life is simply an insight—isn’t that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you’re less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn’t it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you’ve experienced before?…”

“To understand the mind, you pictured domestic activity, the hum of related lives on varied tracks, the hearth’s fundamental glow. …Maybe the futile light in a house with three people separately absorbed in the basement and only one upstairs, a little boy staring at a plate of cold food, was like the mind of a depressed person.”