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Tejas Janet

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“He was starting to think that consciousness wasn’t some lighthouse of self-knowing but merely a little cave where you made up stories about yourself, whatever it took to hide the shit and the slime, the utter mollusk you were in your deepest nature. He wondered what was down there, under the shit, what kind of bedrock he might strike. Take”
― Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species

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“Yes, thought the Count, the world does spin. In fact, it spins on its axis even as it revolves around the sun. And the galaxy turns as well, a wheel within a greater wheel, producing a chime of an entirely different nature than that of a tiny hammer in a clock. And when that celestial chime sounds, perhaps a mirror will suddenly serve its truer purpose - revealing to a man not who he imagines himself to be, but who he has become.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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“...those lives whose truths had disappeared into a vault of eternity beyond her reach—were not gone or silenced. She could hear them calling.”
― Jessica Keener, Strangers in Budapest

tags: eternal, immortality, life, remembrance

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“there is something more to be experienced by staying longer in the outdoors than just proving to the world that you can. It's something on a much more personal level: appreciating things in a different light.”
― Phoebe Smith, Extreme Sleeps: Adventures of a Wild Camper

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“Maybe the trick is not to define yourself as a container for your experiences, your thoughts. Maybe it's to assume you are larger than the things you have felt over a series of years, that your history is not a list of things your body has done or been present for, that your family is not people who you spent a lot of time around as a child or carry your genetic code. Maybe the trick is to push violently at your own boundaries, to find your own contradictions, and use your teeth and nails to destroy what separates you from something else.

I am trying.”
― Jessa Crispin, The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries

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