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“What makes it unbearable is your mistaken belief that it can be cured.”
― Charlotte Joko Beck

“Cassandra wanted the same night over and over again but she believed in some hidden way that if she had the same night enough times it would all crack open, and something better than love would be revealed. Something better than music.”
― Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood

“People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen

“Rumi said the two most important things in life were beauty and bewilderment
This is likely a mistranslation”
― Kaveh Akbar