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“Creativity requires a state of grace. So many things are required for it to succeed—stimulus and composure, inner peace and a kind of bitter-sweet excitement.”
― The Door
― The Door
“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
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“…I kept trying to run away. And I almost did. But it seems that reality compels you to live properly when you live in the real world.”
― A Personal Matter
― A Personal Matter
“We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope.”
― Leaves of Hypnos
― Leaves of Hypnos
“I know now, what I didn’t then, that affection can’t always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else.”
― The Door
― The Door
Patty’s 2025 Year in Books
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