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"Do you feel there's more safety in dull pain? ... Do you prefer pain? ... What is it? To learn joy, do you need every guarantee?"

“It then seemed to her...that there wasn’t a man or woman who hadn’t chanced to look in the mirror and been taken aback. For a fraction of a second the person saw herself as an object to be looked at, which could be called narcissism but, already influenced by Ulisses, she’d call: pleasure in being. To find the external figure the echoes of the internal figure: ah, so it’s true I wasn’t just imagining it: I exist.”

“—though she herself wasn’t sure what she meant by “being protected”: did she, perhaps, have a childish wish to have everything but without the anxiety of having to give something in return? Was protection a presence? If she were protected by Ulisses...she’d immediately aim for the maximum: to be so protected that she wouldn’t fear being free: since from her flights of freedom she’d always have somewhere to return.”