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It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.
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It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year - ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge - and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.
To hurt is as human as to breathe.
But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, 'Live, be, move, rejoice! You are alive! ' Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.
I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred.
I can't stand ultimatums, particularly not in connection with emotional decisions. The person giving an ultimatum in necessarily the stronger one and is taking advantage of this position.
And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."