It's foolish to speak of your happiness before you're sure you have it.
Brian MortonA man can't understand how a woman feels--how she can offer up her entire life to him. The man thinks she's bringing him a burden. He doesn't understand that she's trying to give him a gift.
Brian Morton...they hadlived, they'd lived intensely. But no matter how deeply you live, it comes to this in the end: one of you will be gone and the other will be in mourning.
Brian MortonTo sit across the table and talk with someone you love is itself a complex engagement, with an exhaustingly subtle flow of information; to go to bed with someone--to carry your conversation into the realm of the body, a realm of insecurity and fear as well as pleasure--was always fraught with the sad evidence of how difficult it is to understand another person and make yourself understood.
Brian MortonSo much of human life is animal life: we respond to each other as animals.
Brian MortonThe moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together... Everything else passes away; that which you love remains.
Brian MortonThe thing is to let life assault you, make yourself as defenseless as you can. If it bruises you, don't protest. Love your fate.
Brian MortonSubtlety and indirection are important tools, but you can't scale the highest peaks with these tools alone.
Brian MortonWhat matters, finally, isn't finding the kind of person you think you should
love. What matters is finding someone you feel more alive with.
So you can keep going. You can stay young. There's no inevitable law of diminishment: everyone who fades fades for his own reason.
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