Sami Downing
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“There are moments in life when everyone has to become a warrior of some kind. If you are a poet, you fight with your words; if you are an artist, you fight with your paintings … But you can’t say, “Sorry, I’m a poet, I’ll pass.” You don’t say that when there’s so much suffering, inequality, injustice.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“people fall into three camps: those who hardly, if ever, see beauty, even when it strikes them between the eyes; those who recognize it only when it is made apparent to them; and those rare souls who find beauty everywhere they turn, even in the most unexpected places.”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
“But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. Or perhaps what haunts us is that nagging thought that things might have turned out differently. Because without that thought, we would put it down to fate and accept it.”
― Madonna in a Fur Coat: A Novel by Sabahattin Ali
― Madonna in a Fur Coat: A Novel by Sabahattin Ali
“We matter greatly and not at all. To reach some pinnacle of human achievement only to discover that your achievements are next to nothing and that to understand this is the greatest achievement of any life, which itself is nothing, and also much more than everything. Some metal separates us from the void; death is so close. Life is everywhere, everywhere.sm”
― Orbital
― Orbital
“Pick a single creature on this earth and its story will be the earth’s story,
he suddenly thinks. It can tell you everything, that one creature. The whole
history of the world, the whole likely future of the world.”
― Orbital
he suddenly thinks. It can tell you everything, that one creature. The whole
history of the world, the whole likely future of the world.”
― Orbital
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