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We find ourselves thinking: “Is this all there is?” because we forget that everything is transitory, and no one single instance can summarize the whole. There is nowhere to “arrive” to. The only thing you’re rushing toward is death.
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“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."
[Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]”
― The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition
[Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]”
― The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition
“It’s not food. It’s an industrially produced edible substance.”
― Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food… and Why Can't We Stop?
― Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food… and Why Can't We Stop?
“It was one of those early November mornings that are as beautiful as any in spring. There was gold everywhere, drifts of it on the elm tree, flakes of gold under our feet, gold dust on the hedges, liquid gold in the refracted falling light.”
― The Dean's Watch
― The Dean's Watch
“October had tremendous possibility. The summer's oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.”
― Reclaimed
― Reclaimed
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