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Carlos Simoes
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“Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life a new again.”
― A Natural History of the Senses
― A Natural History of the Senses
“I love the scent of winter. I love the scent of winter enough to suffer the cold for it.”
― The Scent of Winter
― The Scent of Winter
“A rising tower of wood and needles and branches and great slabs of bark that has grown for hundreds of years. An impossible castle made from air and sunlight, fixed in place by the power of photosynthesis and chlorophyll. Magic. With lights.”
― The Eagle Tree
― The Eagle Tree
“Perhaps we really are surrounded by the past, made prisoners of it. No matter how far we travel, how hard we try to forget, the scarred tree forever stands by the side of the road, if only in our minds. The only way to drive by is to set the past straight, once and for all, by remembering.”
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
“Name: One Shade of Grey
Description: You'll recognise this phenomenon through an inability to tell where the pavement ends and the sky begins. Nothing has ever been achieved on a One Shade of Grey day, so if you notice one upon opening your curtains the best advice is to climb back into bed, drink gin through a straw and remember the 'Lost Sun' days of years past.
Most likely: Any of the 18 months of winter.”
― Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time
Description: You'll recognise this phenomenon through an inability to tell where the pavement ends and the sky begins. Nothing has ever been achieved on a One Shade of Grey day, so if you notice one upon opening your curtains the best advice is to climb back into bed, drink gin through a straw and remember the 'Lost Sun' days of years past.
Most likely: Any of the 18 months of winter.”
― Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time
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