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He had told her that he knew what it was like to be her, her on the inside; but he never knew if she believed him. Really, nothing that he knew about her or that she had said about herself accounted for her, just as it might be said to him,
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“For it is in the passage-times that fall between ages—when the laws of an old world weaken and begin to fail and the laws of the new are not yet in force—that we are visited with the notion that time is malleable, that the future is up for shaping, that nothing is fixed: then we are brushed by that wing, and it is the only call we will get.”
― Daemonomania
― Daemonomania
“Qui non intellegit, aut taceat aut discat: if you don’t get it, shut up or go figure.”
― Daemonomania
― Daemonomania
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’ FROM ‘THE BELL JAR’, SYLVIA PLATH HEINEMANN, LONDON, 1963”
― Mindfulness and the Natural World: Bringing our Awareness Back to Nature
― Mindfulness and the Natural World: Bringing our Awareness Back to Nature
“It was their creed that devils had no place on earth, that evil was not a living creature in the world. There was no one to blame other than oneself.”
― Quarantine
― Quarantine
“The body receives gratuity. The world gives graciously, disinterestedly, asking for nothing back, expecting nothing in return; it has no scales, no balance sheet. Our senses cede nothing in return for it, can give nothing back to the source of given beauties. What could the eye give back to the sun, or the palate to the vines of Yquem?”
― The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
― The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
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