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“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.”
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but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.”
―
“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
― Practical Magic
― Practical Magic
“Something unpronounceable
followed by a long silence
points out my life
is becoming a landscape.”
― The Adamant: Poems
followed by a long silence
points out my life
is becoming a landscape.”
― The Adamant: Poems
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