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"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"
— Feb 16, 2026 02:25PM
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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"
— 7 hours, 52 min ago
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"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?"
— Feb 13, 2026 04:02AM
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"To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love." she just get it
— Nov 25, 2025 09:21AM
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"God, what a life - living in the future and the past and existing merely in the present"
— Oct 21, 2025 01:40AM
