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"As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust."
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"I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion."

"Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism."

"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."

"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."

"Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust."

"If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself."

"A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts."
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"In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity."

"When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser."

"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."
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