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“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
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“In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.”
― Blue Nights
― Blue Nights
“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.”
― The Song of the Lark
― The Song of the Lark
“Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.”
― Gravity and Grace
― Gravity and Grace
“Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him.
Every being cries out silently to be read differently.”
― Gravity and Grace
Every being cries out silently to be read differently.”
― Gravity and Grace
Annika’s 2025 Year in Books
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