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“When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
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I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
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“Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.”
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“But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive. ”
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“I feel the terror of idleness,
like a red thirst.
Death isn't just an idea.”
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like a red thirst.
Death isn't just an idea.”
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“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
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