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“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
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“Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.”
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“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”
― Journal of a Solitude
― Journal of a Solitude
“Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”
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“Where music thundered let the mind be still,
Where the will triumphed let there be no will,
What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.”
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Where the will triumphed let there be no will,
What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.”
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Shirley’s 2024 Year in Books
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