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“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful”
― George E.P. Box, Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces

“To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place.

In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.”
― Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

“To remember what they had lost and what they became, what had been torn apart and what had come together, the fugitives and refugees and multitudes in flight were called the Sisala, which means ‘to come together, to become together, to weave together.”
― Saidiya V. Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route