“A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.”
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Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.