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"Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope."
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"I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don't know quite yet but I can't wait to, and that is the start of everything."
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
"Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home."
"I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness."
"The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will."
"Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour."
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"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy."
"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die."
"Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine."
"You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature."
"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."
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