And trust dies from ifs and buts
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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