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For sensitive human beings... a hole in the ego can be worse than

For sensitive human beings… a hole in the ego can be worse than a hole in the heart. – Norman Mailer, address at Hopwood Awards, University of Michigan, April 1984 #cr

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When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin #infj

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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods, “Economy” #infj

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