And yet, because I love thee, I obtainFrom that same love this vindicating grace,To live on still in love, and yet in vain

It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion__t's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.

Dear Matthew-There's one more thing I didn't get to tell you that night in my bedroom. Here it is: I love you. I'm in love with you. I have been for a long time. This might seem like a strange thing for me to say given the fact we aren't speaking to each other. But I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It's sad perhaps, but not tragic, unless you dwell forever in the pursuit of their elusive affections.

Education doesn__ make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don__ become happy just because we__e free _ if we are. Or because we__e been educated _ if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance _ the confidence _ to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.