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“It is difficult to unlearn a lifetime of habitability and then to comprehend suddenly to unfamiliar, strange, even marvellous things. To allow for surprise and improvisation is to begin the apprenticeship of learning the way that is no way.”

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“So the misguided acts of my past have brought me to the virtues of my present and will hopefully lead me to the grace of my future. But I do not consider them "sins." I consider them mistakes, capriciousness in the face of youthful abandon. I found my moral limit because I crossed my own line and did not feel good about it.”