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A Mercy
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My eyes not my stomach are the hungry parts of me. There will never be enough time to look how you move.
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
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“I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons.”
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
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“When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.”
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“It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
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