“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.