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It was my misfortune—or salvation—to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.
“We try to preserve life, even when we know it has no chance of enduring its body. We feed it, keep it comfortable, bathe it, medicate it, caress it, even sing to it. We tend to these basic functions not because we are brave or selfless but because, like breath, it is the most fundamental act of our species: to sustain the body until time leaves it behind.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“No, sir, destruction is not necessary for art.” I said that, not because I was certain, but because I thought my saying it would help me believe it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Our hands empty except for our hands.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?” (Thoreau).”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
ananya’s 2025 Year in Books
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211 books
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270 books
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