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But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and
true
, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.
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It seems like people are all the time making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have
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vision when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.
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There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my
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religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.
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My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed
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north. Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere.
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
Frédéric Bastiat
Elizabeth Berg
Born:
December 2, 1948
(age 76)
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