![The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe [Nature] does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-difficulty-really-is-psychological-and-exists-in-the-perpetual-torment-that-r.jpg)
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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine. Sebastian Faulks
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