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Letters to a Young Poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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“...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world...”
― Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

tags: alive, autism, disability, life-philosophy, nature, permission

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“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.”
― James Baldwin

tags: advice, discipline, endurance, love, luck, talent, writing

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“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: courage, love, trust

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“Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

tags: passage-of-time, time, time-travel

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“I understand that I had engaged seriously with someone who only engaged theoretically, and I was so humiliated by this that we never spoke again.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster

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