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Sometimes, a person reaches a point in their life when it becomes absolutely essential to get the fuck out of the city.
“Whether a life ends happily or sadly, what does it matter but the weight of the emotions one felt, the weight of the clarity of all meaningful moments one possessed while living on this Earth, whether they have been good or bad? Is it not the weight, in the end, that really makes us human after all?”
― Toward Eternity
― Toward Eternity
“Sometimes, I feel that these poems, while they come from the past… somehow, they also come from the future.
Especially this one. Like I am overhearing someone in the future, whispering poems into a time-wind, and I am remembering not a thing that is past but a thing that is yet to come.”
― Toward Eternity
Especially this one. Like I am overhearing someone in the future, whispering poems into a time-wind, and I am remembering not a thing that is past but a thing that is yet to come.”
― Toward Eternity
“Was not every piece of music “4’33,” never a rendition sounding alike, with each element of chance affecting the dynamics, the receptions, the discovery of the music in the room? Was not the machinery of change as much part of the music as the musician?”
― Toward Eternity
― Toward Eternity
“Hope is a terrible thing. It makes you sink ever deeper into the darkness.”
― Toward Eternity
― Toward Eternity
“To write a story about someone is to create someone.”
― Toward Eternity
― Toward Eternity
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