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It didn’t matter what plant I looked at. The structure was always sound, and the design essentials were all there: proportion, scale, unity of idea.
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have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.
such a terrible feeling!
“Right now I feel as though if I stay in this house, if I go on pretending much longer, whatever is left of me is going to just smother.”
How often do women feel this way through their lives?
People who live only for their children make bad company for them.”
So true, yet if you ignore them to look for your personal fulfillment, you hurt them
“Forgive my bluntness, but leaving a boring man for a stimulating one is only interesting for a while. In time, you are back where you started—still wanting. Better to find your own backbone, the strong thing in you. Clearly, you are educated. What work are you drawn to?”
Interesting! You need to be fulfilled first.
“Men have always been trained to have the courage to dare.”
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At forty-five, she didn’t mind gray hair coming in or the crease between her brows. What she despised was the pull of gravity, because it made her look tired, while inside she felt young, with the crispest clarity of mind she’d known since she was twenty-five.
The devide between body and mind is so depressing. Is it a sign of immaturity or a fear if acknowledging one's mortality?
