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How Do You Live?
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Zbigniew Herbert
“he no longer dreams of flight
but of a fall
that draws like lightning
a profile of infinity”
Zbigniew Herbert, The Collected Poems, 1956-1998

Christian Wiman
“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.”
Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

Salman Rushdie
“They have the power of description, and we succumb to the pictures they construct.”
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“That's why we hold onto ideas of things that were and things we need to be: The idea of someone saves something about ourselves. And the more we hold onto those fragments of a person, those soundbite dreams that distract us from the moment, we end up with a few distilled memories that we've turned into life-sustaining hopes, and we piece it all together and place it on the shoulders of the person who we thought loved us enough to make us love ourselves.”
Brianna Weist

“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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