The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

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A light here required a shadow there.

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

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There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

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But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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