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Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
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Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.
I knew that nothing stranger
had ever happened, that nothing
stranger could ever happen.
If someone were to expound that godliness is to belong to childhood in the temporal sense and thus dwindle and die with the years as childhood does, is to be a happy frame of mind that cannot be preserved but only recollected; if someone were to expound that repentance as a weakness of old age accompanies the decline of one's powers, when the senses are dulled, when sleep no longer strengthens but increases lethargy-this would be ungodliness and foolishness.
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand.
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time.