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I have no recollection of ever coming out of this trance performance. Were it possible at this moment to return to the scene, I am certain we would still be there, the two of us, our eyes torn from their sockets, hers glued to mine, mine glued to hers.

(...) The way people said, 'He's fifteen now!' entailed the most embarrassing implications. It all seemed like a sinister puppet show the elders were staging, a spectacle in which we would be the ridiculous performers, there to be laughed at, mocked, goaded into saying and doing unaccountable things.

“No one takes a straight-cut line through life. Often we fail to stop at the stations indicated on the timetable. Sometimes we go off the track. Sometimes we lose our way, or take to the air and vanish like chaff. The most tremendous voyages are sometimes taken without moving from the spot.”

“Like a body composed of millions of cells, sorrow grows and grows and grows, feeds upon itself, renews its million selves, becomes the world and all that is, or the riddle which answers to it.”

“We are enveloped in a sea of forces which seem to defy our puny intelligence. Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery we shall learn nothing.”

“To live out one’s desires and, in so doing, subtly alter their nature is the aim of every individual who aspires to evolve.”