"These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us."

Secrets, Truth, Observation, Fear

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"These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us."

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"I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes."

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"I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life."

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"How exhausted I am suddenly!-though this has been Ray's best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling-almost-exhilarated."

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"A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly and melting on teh ground, a premature snow fall delicate as lace, rapidly melting."

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