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From Quotes by Walker Percy
- As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
- The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little…
- What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms…
- For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half…
- Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
- How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in…
- What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from…
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