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Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging. . . I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.

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I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

Achievement, Discovery, Growth, Ideas, Know, Life

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Alive, Life, Reason, Worry

Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

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I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.

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by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.

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