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“Sometimes, it seemed like the authors were treating language like it was its own creature. A creature that fed, grew, died, and was reborn again. Language was not a tool to them, more like an occasionally useful parasite.”
― Toward Eternity
― Toward Eternity
“Hope is a terrible thing. It makes you sink ever deeper into the darkness.”
― Toward Eternity
― Toward Eternity
“Psych is a mortal whom the god Eros falls in love with. She is given ambrosia on Mount Olympus and weds Eros as a god.”
“I’ll be up for tenure in a few years. Does that count?”
― Toward Eternity
“I’ll be up for tenure in a few years. Does that count?”
― 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
“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
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