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“One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest.”
“And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.”
“The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.”
“But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.”
“My mind cannot grasp forever," she told him. "There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?”
“Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move int...”
“Families are wonderful institution," he said. "I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual life to live, our own path to tread, our own destiny to forge. You can ima...”
“My life will be what I make it," he told her. "That is true for all of us all the time. We cannot know what the future will bring or how the events of the future will make us feel. We cannot even p...”
“This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that bound everything together. And for him it was true. Life had been beautifu...”
“I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find...”
“Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, i...”
