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You said you were having fun.""Well, yes and no, strictly speaking I was in hell. Perhaps I have always been there. One can have fun in hell.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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But my wants are huge, my desires are rapacious, I want love, I want the splendour and violence of love, and I want it now, I want someone of my own.
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Why do I always have to be helping people . . . and getting no help myself?
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I might say too that you are the person who ought to help me, since you do bear some responsibility for having awakened in me such an immense, such a truly monstrous degree of love.
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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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If I could only pray, he thought, if there was only some reservoir of force out of which I could draw something extra.
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Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.
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Of course she had read this work many times before, but there were certain parts to which she passionately returned: so cool, so elegant, so beautiful, so terrible. As she read tears began to stream down her face.
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