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“For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.”
― The Botany of Desire : A Plant'S-Eye View of the World
― The Botany of Desire : A Plant'S-Eye View of the World
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
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“I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.”
― The Red Tent
― The Red Tent
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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