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Loïe is the apotheosis of an age that is coming to a close. Loïe is living through the start of the slow decline of theater, of live movement, of illusions played out in front of our faces, of the bending of light and space and the
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I love this conclusion. It is like closing the curtain on the theatrical performance of an era of positive, life-assisting inventions.
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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“I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”
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“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
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“The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.”
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