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“What an atrocious, sustained effort is required, I find, to learn or do anything thoroughly—especially if it’s what you love. A vocation is a source of difficulty, not ease. […] Well, why not? Anything is preferable to the safe side of the line.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus

“This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

“I live, the way numbers live, and the stars; the way tanned hide ripped from the belly of an animal lives, and nylon rope; the way any object lives, in communion with others.”
― Olga Ravn, The Employees

“The thing we liked to do most was go exploring in the desert. We‘d get up at dawn, my favorite time, when the shadows were long and purple and you still had the whole day ahead of you.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle