The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time. The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. The Waves
We may, indeed, indulge in sport and jest, but in the same way as we enjoy sleep or other relaxations, and only when we have satisfied the claims of our earnest, serious task On Duties
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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