“But what do I do? I end up torturing myself with all this overthinking. I am trapping my consciousness in both the future and the past alike instead of relishing the present. No wonder the desert cries at night, in light of such thoughts.”
― Peruvian Days
― Peruvian Days
“Don't ever get to the point where you feel like you know it all. Life still has so much more to teach you.”
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“It feels worse to stay silent when thoughts in your head scream loud.”
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“I want to travel with an affinity that is discreet, diverse, loosely convened but moving with purpose. I want each book I write to be an affinity of sorts, and within it each essay or fragment in turn an affinity of ideas, images, moods and citations. It is not enough to want this—you have to perform it, and one of the perils of writing is that I may only describe my affinity, and fail to embody it.”
― Affinities
― Affinities
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