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“So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.”
“I loved him.I couldn't pinpoint what made me so certain, but I knew it then, as surely as I knew my name or the color of the sky or any fact written in a book.Could he feel it, too?Maxon broke the ...”
“The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.”
“A sense of mission lostin ink'sjagged outcrops.I was trying to tell myselfwhat I must have knownbeforein a formI wouldn't recognize at first.”
“When you know, you know and it flows in your mind like waves. Coming forward as it pulls with the tide. It brings anxiety, terror, and its beyond anything plausible.”
“You don't know shits I through in my life. You don't know how many times I've fucked. You don't know me.”
“Even more remote from his way of thinking, even more impossible than any other thought, would have been words such as this: Is it only I alone who have created this experience, or is it objective r...”
“What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...”
“She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.”
“For some reason I think of the first time I saw her, kicking the shit out of the vending machine that refused to release her candy. Before that day, every hour of my life had been exactly like the ...”
“nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know.”
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”
“Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.”
“What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.”
“Maybe you are a pig and don't even know it.”
“Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say 'we don't know.' For the Professor, there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the ...”
“Theres nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though ...”
“How to recognize what is real? To know the layers and depths of oneself, to know how to open, to know how to fill a capacious hold-all, to know ones own quirks and nervous twitches, cravings and tr...”
“You are worthless to others if you don't know your own self and self-worth.”
“Life wants you to know yourself, be yourself and love yourself.”
