“ To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task… tremendous and foolish and human. ”
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“ To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task… tremendous and foolish and human. ”
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“ Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. ”
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“ Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. ”
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“ Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. ”
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“ Eddy tells me his book is basically an argument against suicide. Every page contains a reason not to kill yourself. ”
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“ Idolatrous frenzy, Is that something like traditional religion?" asks Bangs. "Yeah it is," says Sweetie. "I'm a pagan Catholic. Moving on? ”
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“ I have always believed in a tortured god from reading Catholic history because I know this: there is nothing that one human being will not do to another. We need a god who sides with the wretched. One willing to share misery. ”
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“ Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. ”
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“ Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Throw it in the garbage and it springs up clean. Try to root it out and it only flourishes. Love is a weed, a dandelion that you poison from your heart. The taproots wait. The seeds blow off, ticklish, into a part of the yard you didn't spray. And one day, though you worked, though you prodded out each spiky leaf, you lift your eyes and dozens of fat golden faces bob in the grass. ”
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“ Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after — lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again. ”
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“ In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ”
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“ Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. ”
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“ They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. ”
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“ I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not? ”
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“ In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ”
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“ I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. ”
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“ When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape. ”
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“ I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. ”
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“ When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left. ”
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“ I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. ”
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“ Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America. ”
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“ I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not? ”
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“ I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not? ”
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“ I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. ”
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