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You could devote yourself relentlessly to art and there would be no great reward; you could go to your death for all of your talent thinking you had failed at your great work.
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“You cannot understand stillness when you have the full range of motion. We are all just bodies when it comes down to it. Though when you grow old, you are edged out of even that. How little you are able to inhabit it. You notice that pleasures always involve verbs.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
“He knows I am a lifelong insomniac. How profound working into the night has been. It always strikes me how odd it is that we live with such divisions, that we spend half our lives lying down, in blackout.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
“We are so rarely left alone to love what we want to love, I say. Happiness comes from accepting the world the way it is. I've worked against this notion my whole life.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
“I feel joy and sorrow at once. Thinking for the first time how a work of art contains the unknown thoughts of the artist, and how everyone looking at this world will never know what was in him when this was made. Even me.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
“Routine lures you, it makes you feel your own identity. Though I often think the opposite. That in repetition, you can lose sight of yourself.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
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