Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.
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As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul.
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It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.
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Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instea...
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Holy men tell us life is a mystery.They embrace that concept happily.But some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.
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...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.
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Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.
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Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the...
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A broken thing can't fix itself.
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Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...
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In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.
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It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.
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Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the stars or lighting the water for a moment on their ...
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people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist
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It's so damn hard to bloom... to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enou...
