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There is no question about it now. I'm in love.

I dont no what sience is but they all keep saying it so maybe its someting that helps you have good luk.

Each day I learn more and more about myself, and the memories that began to ripples now wash over in high breaking waves ...

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.

Nothing in our minds is ever really gone.

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70. And this time we both know it.

It's not love-but she's important to me. I find myself listening for her
footsteps down the hallway whenever she's been out.

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

What's right? Ironic that all my intelligence doesn't help me solve a problem like this.

Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.

The current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea.

how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They're people - and afraid the rest of the world will find out.

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you may not even want me.

I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone.

I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had.

I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

It must be rather dull taking up someone else's work rather than something you've conceived and created yourself.

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.
Charlie Gordan

But with the freedom came a sadness.

There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin.
Charlie Gordan

. . . the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes . . .' October

People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem - they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.

I passed your floor on the way up, and now I'm passing it on the way down, and I don't think I'll be taking this elevator again.

The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.

had reached a new level, and anger and suspicion were my first reactions to the world around me. Burt's

To control one's own destiny takes a mastermind. To execute the plans takes a fool.

I dint know they had majers in collidge. I thot it was onley in the army. Anyway

I am afraid. Not of live, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if it had never been.

P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

My anger was an exciting feeling, and I didn't give it up easily. I was ready to fight.

The last time we were here," I said, "I told you I liked you. I should have trusted myself to say I love you.

It doesn't mean,' she shrugged. 'It just is

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

I hate that mouse

Holy smoke I reely pulled a Charlie Gordon that time.

Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go.

I may soon be coming to Warren, tos pend the rest of my life with the others ... waiting.

Punctuation, is? fun!

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

Who's to say death is better than your darkness?

I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.

They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge.

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have some respect! He's a human being!

My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.

Time assumes another dimension now - work and absorption in the search for an answer.

Why am I always looking at life through a window?

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?

I want to stop time, freeze myself at this level and never let go of her.

I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

Language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.

My confused feeling for her had been holding me back, and I had to clung to her out of my fear of being forced out on my own, and cut adrift.

... experimental failure, the disproving of a theory, was as important to the advancement of learning as a success would be.

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

I may not have all the time I thought I had...

I wanted to be in love with her. I wanted to overcome my emotional and sexual fears, to marry, have children, settle down.

If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.

ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE.

there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn." I

So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less - filling

Who's to say that death is better than your darkness?