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"He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape."
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"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."

"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."

"It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them."

"Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace."

"You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself."

"A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone."
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