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“It's very difficult to look at the World
and into your heart at the same time.
In between, a life has passed.”
― After Ikkyu & Other Poems
and into your heart at the same time.
In between, a life has passed.”
― After Ikkyu & Other Poems
“Perhaps swimming was dancing in the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to swim under upraised logs past schools of sunfish and bluegills, to swim through reed beds past wriggling water snakes and miniature turtles, to swim in small lakes, big lakes, Lake Michigan, to swim in small farm ponds, creeks, rivers, giant rivers where one was swept along easefully by the current, to swim naked alone at night when you were nineteen and so alone you felt like you were choking every waking moment, having left home for reasons more hormonal than rational; reasons having to do with the abstraction of the future and one's questionable place in the world of the future, an absurdity not the less harsh for being so widespread.”
― Legends of the Fall
― Legends of the Fall
“When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought”
― The Road Home
― The Road Home
“He looked around the clearing in recognition that he was lost but didn’t mind because he knew he had never been found.”
― Legends of the Fall
― Legends of the Fall
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