Luiza Mello
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Yes, not only humans but also every other organism in the cosmos, as well as the planets or moons on which they thrive, would not exist but for the wreckage of spent stars. So you’re made of detritus. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate
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“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”
― The First Bad Man
― The First Bad Man
“Elle voulait que sa vie prit forme maintenant, tout de suite - et cette décision devait être forgée par une force quelconque - d'amour, d'argent, d'un ordre pratique incontestable - qui devait être la, sous sa main.”
― L'écume des jours
― L'écume des jours
“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Or perhaps it is just that George has spent proper time looking at this one painting and that every single experience of looking at something would be this good if she devoted time to everything she looked at.”
― How to be Both
― How to be Both
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