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I wish I could say that we have learned our lesson. But humans rarely look back to the past, until they have made the same mistakes. By which time their opinions are considered irrelevant, as they are apparently too old to understand the
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“work. Revisiting a source of trauma outside a therapeutic setting is not cathartic—it just inflicts a new wound. But”
― Blade
― Blade
“The flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same.
The foam that floats in the pools
Now gathering, now vanishing
Never lasts long. So it is with man
and all his dwelling places on this earth.”
― Notebook of a Ten-Square Rush Mat Sized World
The foam that floats in the pools
Now gathering, now vanishing
Never lasts long. So it is with man
and all his dwelling places on this earth.”
― Notebook of a Ten-Square Rush Mat Sized World
“No one else remembers my childhood, and if and when anything happens to me, no one will be able to share my mother’s stories. ‘Drink?’ Gio says, coming to stand beside me.”
― A Winter in New York
― A Winter in New York
“If only the world knew that certain things were not meant to be measured by metrics like efficiency and profitability.”
― The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
― The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Maxims
― Maxims
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