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“I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain. --Valentine, while in Italy (pg 267)”
― Very Valentine
― Very Valentine
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“No reader can fail to agree that the number of books she needs to read far exceeds her capacities, but when the passion for rereading kicks in, the faint guilt that therefore attends the indulgence only serves to intensify its sweetness.”
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“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.”
― Very Valentine
― Very Valentine
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