She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a shared understanding and connection between two people who recognize their mutual struggles or addictions.
In this quote, Christopher Isherwood highlights the complex interplay of emotions that arise when two individuals acknowledge their similar vulnerabilities or dependencies. The sigh of sympathy and delight signifies a profound bond that develops through shared experiences, suggesting that there is comfort in knowing that one is not alone in their struggles, mirroring the relief and joy of finding companionship in adversity.
In practice
In a support group meeting where shared struggles are discussed.
The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of the reasons why I can't believe in any orthodox religion: I cannot believe in my own soul. No, I am a chemical compound, conditioned by environment and education. My "character" is simply a repertoire of acquired tricks, my conversation a repertoire of adaptations and echoes, my "feelings" are dictated by purely physical, external stimuli.
A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.
What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?
I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.
The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.
I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.
When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.
Believing you are worthy of love means that you believe I deserve to be treated well - with respect and dignity. I deserve to be cherished and adored by someone. I am worthy of an intimate and fulfilling relationship. I won't settle for less than I deserve. I will do whatever it takes to create that for myself.
Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
In communities of color, such as Ferguson, it often feels like the police are protecting the white community from us instead of protecting our communities from the criminal element.
If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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