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Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort of peace? Certainly it has always seemed so to me. All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living.
one needn’t love in order to depend.
“Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”
For a moment I thought of setting my basket down and running away, running off into the darkness and never coming back. Would anyone ever come looking for me? I wondered.
“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.
Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
“It made me wish there were a place as much me as that place is you.
