"The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes."

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I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.

— Henry Miller