There Is Only One Real Deprivation... And

When We Speak Of Being Vulnerable, It Suggests Being Especially Vulnerable To Pain. People For Whom Personal Dignity And Self-sufficiency Are Everything, Do All They Can To Shut It Out. Noli Mi Tangere. They Are Well Aware That Any Intimate Relationship Has Pain In It, Forces A Special Kind Of Awareness, Is Costly, And So They Try To Keep Themselves Unencumbered By Shutting Pain Out As Far As It Is Possible To Do So.

Nobody Stays Special When They're Old, Anna. That's What We Have To Learn.

People Who Cannot Feel Punish Those Who Do.

Absence Becomes The Greatest Presence.

We Are Able To Laugh When We Achieve Detachment, If Only For A Moment.