“A hysterical human? Who hadn't seen that before?”
“A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.”
“For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.”
“I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.”
“He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.”
“'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.”