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“Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.”
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“Sometimes,
all you can do
is lie in bed,
and hope
to fall asleep
before
you fall apart.”
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all you can do
is lie in bed,
and hope
to fall asleep
before
you fall apart.”
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“She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes, he took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .”
― In the Eye of the Sun
― In the Eye of the Sun
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
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“I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.”
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