What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach? —Walt Whitman
I personally feel this way when I read the news and make a futile attempt to glimpse the long arc of history as it’s being made. What horrible and dreadful things we as a species are up to, andwhat crazy and wonderful thingstoo.
“To find a new world, maybe you have to have lost one. Maybe you have to be lost. The dance of renewal, the dance that made world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast.”
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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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