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Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It's a given and that's the secret.
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real-love
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Jonathan Carroll |
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I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Without asking, Wonder often brings along dubious friends: doubt, jealousy, greed. Together they take over; rearrange the furniture in every one of your rooms for their own comfort. They speak odd languages but make no attempt to transl..
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wonder
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Jonathan Carroll |
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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Everything you want in life has teeth.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.
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love
peace
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Jonathan Carroll |
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One of the most terrible losses man endures in his lifetime is not even noticed by most people, much less mourned. Which is astonishing, because what we lose is in many ways one of the essential qualities that sets us apart from other creatures. I'm talking about the loss of the sense of wonder that is such an integral part of our world when we are children. However, as we grow older, that sense of wonder shrinks from cosmic to microscopic ..
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're do..
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finishing
reading-books
resonance
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Usually at least once in a person's childhood we lose an object that at the time is invaluable and irreplaceable to us, although it is worthless to others. Many people remember that lost article for the rest of their lives. Whether it was a lucky pocketknife, a transparent plastic bracelet given to you by your father, a toy you had longed for and never expected to receive, but there it was under the tree on Christmas... it makes no differen..
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.
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humor
life
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Jonathan Carroll |
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00f4c6c
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When you love someone deeply, you know secrets they haven't told you yet. Or secrets they aren't even aware of themselves. ... She was also the person I wanted to share the trivia of my life with, because that too is part of the magic of concern: Whatever you live is important to them and they will help you through it.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and funny habits fall fast through a big black hole, and suddenly you know they're gone because just as suddenly, there's nothing left at all inside.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer."
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color
prayer
films
cinema
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Jonathan Carroll |
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9e1224c
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Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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c0d49e1
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You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.
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let-the-past-begin
stories-all-new-tales
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Look around you. Watch how people function and interact with one another. You'll see this is going on everywhere all the time. People devour each other in the name of love, or family or country. But that's an excuse; they're just hungry and want to be fed. Read their faces, the newspapers, read what it says on their T-shirts! 'I think you're mistaking me for someone who gives a shit.' 'My parents went to London but all they brought me back ..
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Jonathan Carroll |
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If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service.
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success
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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The questions are the danger. Leave them alone and they sleep. Ask them, awake them, and more than you know will begin to rise.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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b9a8cca
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If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right in a way. But logic and rationality only go so far. Then you know what happens? Ha! Then your heart adds its two cents and everything reasonable goes right-out-the-window.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Dogs are the kids we've always wanted. They're totally devoted and want to live with you until they die. Not like children who can't wait to take off as soon as they grow up and don't need you anymore.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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strach nie jest jak choroba zakazna, nie przychodzi skads, ale sam go tworzysz. glownie przez milosc. im bardziej cos kochasz, tym bardziej dreczy cie mysl, ze moglbys to stracic. wtedy strach jest zawsze gdzies tuz obok.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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BUYING A PAIR OF shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to see an old man wearing a brand new pair of brogues or cap-toed oxfords, preferably jaunty orange-brown, unscuffed, heels unworn. We want to be here tomorrow, but buying new shoes, like falling in love, says I plan on being here tomorrow.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Everything will haunt you, all the storms will find you, everything will remind you she's gone.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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I had once thought strength of character was a hardening of oneself; an intricate protection system by which you reconciled yourself to the truths of life and learned to let them not bother you. But all systems of character building go right out the window when you find there aren't anymore truths.. or none you recognize.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Not only do you lose a person to death, but you lose their noise too--their noise and smells, gestures and facial expressions. You lose the way they talk and phrase things and laugh, the way they fill in your blanks without ever thinking about it or having to try. You lose things you love about them they don't even know they possess.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Loving someone is easy. It's your car and all you have to do is start the engine, give her a little gas and point the thing wherever you want to go. But being loved is like being taken for a ride in someone else's car. Even if you think they'll be a good driver, you always have the innate fear they might do something wrong: in an instant you'll both be flying through the windshield toward imminent disaster. Being loved can be the most frigh..
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Jonathan Carroll |
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We're often wrong at predicting who or what will transform us. Encountering certain people, books, music, places, or ideas ... at just the right time can immediately make our lives happier, richer, more beautiful, resonant, or meaningful. When it happens, we feel a kind of instant love for them, both deep and abiding. Now and then it can be something as trifling as a children's book, a returned telephone call, or a night at a seaside bar in..
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Jonathan Carroll |
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I think we love differently every day. Like the guy who said you can't stand in a river at exactly the same place twice. Today I love you differently than yesterday, or will tomorrow.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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One of the reasons why I liked living in Manhattan was that the city would share your mood the moment you walked out the door. If you were in a hurry, everything else was too, even the pigeons. You shared the same speed and sense of urgency to get wherever you were going. When you had time to kill, it was happy to give you things to look at and do that easily took up whole days. I didn't agree with people who said Manhattan was a cold, indi..
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living
mood
manhattan
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Tell your mother the Law of Stolen Flight.' 'Only flame, and things with wings. All the rest suffer stings.
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flight
wings
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Jonathan Carroll |
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The trouble with wars is that they all look alike to people who aren't involved. Only the skin color of the dead is different.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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The world can be divided between people who can get a waiter's attention and those who can't.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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One of the joys of being a dog is that they have no concept of the word "future." Everything is right now, and if right now happens to be a warm floor and a full stomach, then life is good."
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Jonathan Carroll |
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I wish I knew the flavor of my happiness.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Like a spider web that you walk into, it is not so easy to get all the tendrils of real love off after you have passed through it.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Animals are on earth to protect mankind. When you gather a bunch of them together like this, you create a safe haven. Nothing can touch you here.
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safe-haven
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Jonathan Carroll |
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116dc70
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How does these things happen? How do we go mad in small ways and calmly work the madness into our everyday little exercises...? Little by little...
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Jonathan Carroll |
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guilt's a whore. It goes with anybody, but it's not good in bed. You're not dying, but this thing you've got with the girl is no different than my situation. We could both use up whole days feeling guilty 'bout what we didn't do in life, but why spend a day in bed with someone who doesn't give you any pleasure?
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Chaos doesn't do, it undoes.
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Jonathan Carroll |