Insomnia Is A Glamorous Term For Thoughts

Our Sense Of What Is Valuable Will Hence Be Radically Distorted If We Must Perpetually Condemn As Tedious Everything We Lack, Simply Because We Lack It.

If Cynicism And Love Lie At Opposite Ends Of A Spectrum, Do We Not Sometimes Fall In Love In Order To Escape The Debilitating Cynicism To Which We Are Prone? Is There Not In Every Coup De Foudre A Certain Willful Exaggeration Of The Qualities Of The Beloved, An Exaggeration Which Distracts Us From Our Habitual Pessimism And Focuses Our Energies On Someone In Whom We Can Believe In A Way We Have Never Believed In Ourselves?

The Only People We Can Think Of As Normal Are Those We Don't Yet Know Very Well.

As Adults, We Try To Develop The Character Traits That Would Have Rescued Our Parents.

Not Being Understood May Be Taken As A Sign That There Is Much In One To Understand.