I was terrified of my weakness, of my sharp tongue, ofmy every flaw. I was terrified that this moment, my chance tolive in happiness for however short a time we may have had, would be ruined because I was simply not carved out of thesame wood as happiness, and that my grain was too twistedto ever take its form.Amy Lane
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In one of his poems, the great Japanese poet Basho wrote, “In short, I was terrified.” He was talking about the final moments before he took his own life. In the end, he couldn’t live with himself and the way he had failed and treated others.
Source: Truth In The Dark
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