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“I wonder if the emphasis might be placed differently, shifted from unconscious reaction to unrealized action: that is, our anxiety is less the mind shielding itself from death than the spirit's need to be.”
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
“It is not hard to hear this music, but it is very difficult to hear it as music.”
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
“I found him whom my soul loves. I held him and would not let him go.”
― SONG OF SOLOMAN / TAR BABY / SULA (THREE NOVELS IN ONE BOOK)
― SONG OF SOLOMAN / TAR BABY / SULA (THREE NOVELS IN ONE BOOK)
“he no longer dreams of flight
but of a fall
that draws like lightning
a profile of infinity”
― The Collected Poems, 1956-1998
but of a fall
that draws like lightning
a profile of infinity”
― The Collected Poems, 1956-1998
“Shame is my lot, saith the widow, drudgery my calling, misery my fate, and ye condemn me but not that. So be it. Though the end of it be tears, shall I take the end for the beginning? Short through this be, I will laugh while I may, and not know sorrow only.”
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Ali’s 2025 Year in Books
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