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“Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.”
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“The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object”
― Sculpting in Time
― Sculpting in Time
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few. —Shunryu”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”
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“Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.”
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Mitchell’s 2025 Year in Books
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19 friends
131 books
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10 friends
550 books
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16 friends
118 books
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159 friends
16 books
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76 friends
207 books
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17 friends
238 books
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4 friends
27 books
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14 friends
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