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“I realized that I had come here in the hope of once more finding that man so hopelessly in love: I had not seen him for years and years, although this memory lies like a transparency over all the visions I have of him. That evening, for the very reason that the surroundings were the same, the old image, coming into contact with a flesh and blood man smoking a cigarette, fell to dust and ashes, I had a shattering revelation: time goes by. I began to weep.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“I can accept the poverty of my knowledge, accept the fact that I don't know all these things, accept the emptiness. And I can do the same when people criticise me, I can accept my poverty in their eyes, say: "Yes, I am like that." And curiously enough, after doing this, I feel actually richer, instead of the lack I had felt before while trying so hard to think up reasons why they were wrong.”
― Marion Milner, An Experiment in Leisure

“Full fathom five thy father lies
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change"
Into something rich and strange.”
― Shakespeare William, The Tempest

“I say to the earth / be kind to my mother”
― Louise Glück