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Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

Stephen Fry
Names, Giving, Laughing
Stephen Fry (2014). “The Hippopotamus”, p.93, Soho Press

First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge.It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb. It’s like… It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for a single... human being to offer that back to you in a mutual way.

Stephen Fry
First Love, Love Is, Giving
"First Love Is Always Unrequited" by Stephen Fry, bigthink.com.

Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.

Stephen Fry
Depression, Giving, Tears

Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they want, they haven't understood that their partner wants to give more love and receive less or they haven't understood that their partner wants to receive more, but sort of give less.

Stephen Fry
People, Giving, Want
Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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