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I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward.

— Andrew Solomon Far from the Tree (2012)

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I think all love is one-third projection and one-third acceptance and never more than one-third knowledge and insight.

Far from the Tree (2012)

People want to get better, but they don't want to change.

Far from the Tree (2012)

Any of us can be a better version of himself, but none of us can be someone else.

Far from the Tree (2012)

I wish the autistic child I have did not exist, and I had a different [nonautistic] child instead.

Far from the Tree (2012)

Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat — it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (2001)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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