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Circe
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Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.
“At the end of the day, we all remember for the same reason we try to forget: to survive in a world that neither understands nor values us.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“Maybe we give other names to grief because we are too scared to call it by its name.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“When elderly Cypriot women wish ill on someone, they don't ask for anything blatantly bad to befall them. They don't pray for lightning bolts, unforseen accidents or sudden reversals of fortune. They simply say,
May you never be able to forget.
May you go to your grave still remembering.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
May you never be able to forget.
May you go to your grave still remembering.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
“People assume it’s a matter of personality, the difference between optimists and pessimists. But I believe it all comes down to an inability to forget. The greater your powers of retention, the slimmer your chances at optimism.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“But not everyone needs to be a warrior, my dear. Otherwise we’d never have poets, artists, scientists …’ ‘I disagree,’ said Defne into her wine glass. ‘There are moments in life when everyone has to become a warrior of some kind. If you are a poet, you fight with your words; if you are an artist, you fight with your paintings … But you can’t say, “Sorry, I’m a poet, I’ll pass.” You don’t say that when there’s so much suffering, inequality, injustice.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
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