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It seems to him there area thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.

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I believe that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension that we find paralyzing because we no longer hear our surprised feelings living. Becaus...more

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That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into its innermost chamb...more

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The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseas...more

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Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while ...more

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So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must thin...more

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Great sadnesses … they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything...more

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so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for perhaps you are both. And mo...more

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How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn int...more

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Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while ...more

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And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our futur...more

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Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure ...more