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Finally I saw that everything had come to nothing. and gave it up. and took my old body and went out into the morning and sang.
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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’