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“The more intelligent you become the more problems you’ll have, Charlie.
make a squeezing pressure inside him and a sense of panic.
Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.
I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am.
am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.
“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love
The most important thing had always been what other people thought—appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it.
I wished I could say that like the House of Atreus or Cadmus we were suffering for the sins of our forefathers, or fulfilling an ancient Greek oracle. But
there weren’t horrible thoughts repressed behind the barriers of my tortured
The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other—child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway toward the goal-box of solitary death.