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"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."

"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism."

"I don't know which is worse: that I'm home and so much is different, or that I'm home and so much feels the same."

"Let go of what was and embrace what to be."

"It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you."

"...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited."

"The nearer the dawnthe darker the night."

"Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death."

"There was only one option left, and it was letting go."
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"The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages."


"Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final."


"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead."


"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."
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