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Beautiful Ugly

by Alice Feeney (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 18, 2025 04:50AM

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The Mother Artist: Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity

by Catherine Ricketts

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“What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.”
― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

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“I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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“What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

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“I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: death, dying

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