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“Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. But they are shapes, they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.”
― Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses

“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories