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The sense of relief and freedom which always followed when I managed to bring myself to ask, ‘What are the facts?’ instead of, ‘What shall I do?’ was like waking up from one of those tiresome dreams in which one is continually involved in futile efforts, such as trying to pack and catch a train and everything goes wrong.
— Jan 28, 2020 08:17AM
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Without understanding, I was at the mercy of blind habit; with understanding, I could develop my own rules for living and nd out which of the conicting exhortations of a changing civilization was appropriate to my needs.
— Jul 02, 2020 01:39PM
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My mind jumped to the thought that it stood for the panic dread of being overwhelmed by the boundless sea of what was not myself.
— May 18, 2020 01:31PM
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For it was obvious that I had so often failed to get the most out of whatever I did because my attention was always wandering to something else. So I began to try, and the result was a sense of new possibilities in richness of thought.
— Dec 04, 2019 06:02AM
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23rd. Exulted in my body and clothes and red skirt and freedom to do as I chose on Sunday morning. After lunch headache and sleep. Evening delight in Chapter I of Ulysses. Some queer spell that gives the sense of humanity–like the trance from reading 'The Hound of Heaven' when I was twelve.
— Nov 06, 2019 12:43PM
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I do not seem to have enlarged upon the thought of how odd it was that I should feel a glow of usefulness in merely listening to accounts of other people’s hard work.
— Sep 11, 2019 02:35PM
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Was there not a way by which each person could nd out for himself what he was like, not by reading what other people thought he ought to be, but directly, as directly as knowing the sky is blue and how an apple tastes, not needing anyone to tell him?
— Sep 05, 2019 02:49PM
