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- One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends, in…
- Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will.…
- There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at…
- And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the…
- My god! people say. You have so much self-control! And later: My god. You're so, so sick. When people say this, they turn their heads,…
- I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.
- We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
- Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you…
- Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up…
- In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass…
- We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed…
- But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were,…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong