It's kind of like religion. It gives us comfort to believe we have defined something that is, by its very nature, indefinable. As to whether or not we've gotten it right, well, it's all a matter of faith.
Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.
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Neel Burton
PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.
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Stanley Victor Paskavich
The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per analogiam. They come not within the jurisdiction of the physician, but that of the teacher or clergyman, who again are called physicians of...
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Ernst Von Feuchtersleben
To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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Jeanette Winterson
Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.
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Allie Burke
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Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours. Then, on top of it, you took a hostage AND...
So the gods must mean something else, ” said Jix.“God, not gods! ” insisted Johnnie.Nick threw up his hands. “God, gods, or whatever, ” said Nick. “Right now, it doesn’t matter whether it’s Jesus, or Kukulcan, or a dancing bear at the end of the...
Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.
Then, in spite of everything, he began to smile. So much of his existence in Everlost had been full of despair. Despair, and a fear of losing what he had. But Allie was not lost, she was just there across the river, waiting for him...
When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can’t describe.”“ We all felt it, ” Nick said.“ You may have felt it, but I caused it.” Then both his eyes seemed to go far away. “Something changed out there. <span style="margin:15px;...
