Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
- Topic: Courage, Life
- Location: Curacao
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
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