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I Could Hear Rain Still Pouring From The Gutters And A Thin Branch Scraping Against One Of The Windows; But The Church Seemed Completely Cut Off From The Restless Day Outside--just As I Felt Cut Off From The Church. I Thought: I Am A Restlessness Inside A Stillness Inside A Restlessness.

Sometimes [the Expression] Old Age Has A Kind Of Harrowing Beauty. But Elderly - Ugh!

Just To Be In Love Seemed The Most Blissful Luxury I Had Ever Known. The Thought Came To Me That Perhaps It Is The Loving That Counts, Not The Being Loved In Return -- That Perhaps True Loving Can Never Know Anything But Happiness. For A Moment I Felt That I Had Discovered A Great Truth.

When I Read A Book, I Put In All The Imagination I Can, So That It Is Almost Like Writing The Book As Well As Reading It - Or Rather, It Is Like Living It. It Makes Reading So Much More Exciting, But I Don't Suppose Many People Try To Do It.

Father Says Hot Water Can Be As Stimulating As An Alcoholic Drink And Though I Never Come By One...i Can Well Believe It.