When A Man Takes A

In The Instant Before The Door Opened, I Could Almost Sense My Life Expanding Just Like A River Whose Waters Have Begun To Swell; For I Had Never Before Taken Such A Drastic Step To Change The Course Of My Own Future. I Was Like A Child Tiptoeing Along A Precipice Overlooking The Sea. And Yet Somehow I Hadn't Imagined A Great Wave Might Come And Strike Me There, And Wash Everything Away.

It's Less A Matter Of Looking The Other Way Than Of Closing Our Eyes To What We Can't Stop From Happening.

At That Moment, Beauty Itself Struck Me As A Kind Of Painful Melancholy.

Well, A Peach Has A Lovely Taste And So Does A Mushroom, But You Can't Put The Two Together.

If You Have Experienced An Evening More Exciting Than Any In Your Life, You're Sad To See It End; And Yet You Still Feel Grateful That It Happened.