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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be read more
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.
I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am read more
I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
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What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
Fixed me in this parenthesis;
Horses fluent in the wind,
A place, a time gone out of mind.
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to read more
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
