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“It is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational.”

“‘Death is the mother of beauty,’ said Henry.
‘And what is beauty?’
‘Terror.’
‘Well said… beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.’”

“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one thing hurts along with one’s burned tongues and skinned knees, that one’s aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy”

“‘It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate’”

I’m so excited to start this book!!!