“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
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“In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.”
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“Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this”
― Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this”
― Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
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“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
― Sula
― Sula
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