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"He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed."
Curiosity
"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."
Fear
"All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard."
Humor
"Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are."
Positivity
"Men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit."
Relationship
"I love you. You're the only one." She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them."
Romance
"Confronted by too much emptiness, said Adam One, the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?"
Psychology
"We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down."
Spiritual
"I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge."
Memory
"No wires tender even as nervescan transmit the impact ofour seasons, our catastropheswhile we are closed inside them."
Emotion
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"Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too."
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"Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel."
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Personal Development
"Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo."
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Personal Development
"Pain was a torn piece of paper."
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Personal Development
"I was tired of her getting away with being so young."
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Personal Development
"But I was - not quite happy. Pending happy. I knew this was not really my life, it was a borrowed life. One that I was temporarily wearing until I could sort out my own."
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Personal Development
"He was so lonely that he laughed at himself."
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Personal Development
"Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality."
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Personal Development
"I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop."
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Personal Development
"I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness."
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Personal Development
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