Cryptic clues

To know oneself is to be apart from oneself, to be able to wrap that little finger around what is the core of being and then release it rapidly.

The process of growing can often involve moments of regressing, trampling back over past moments, reliving actions via the same course to bring you to the same outcome - an adult's way of knocking a head against a brick wall...a pointless exercise to the outsider, but a necessary one at times.

I swear there are days when I would be better off being a melancholic poet in the age of the Bronte sisters - perhaps a thrice-removed cousin or some fashion of off-hand relative.