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“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
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“You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose.”
― A Mercy
― A Mercy
“My, my. A body does get around.”
― Light in August
― Light in August
“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
― Now in November
― Now in November
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