Martha was a clever girl, and therefore not a believer.

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Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.

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You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...

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Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

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The conventional accept and are frequently charmed by a certain unconventionality.

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We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.

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But if being on the level didn't shield you from pain, maybe it was better to be up in the clouds.

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Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.

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(...) juries should ask not "Is he guilty?" but rather "Is he dangerous?

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The, at some point, sooner or later, for this reason or that, one of them is taken away. And what is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

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