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“You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by.”
― Nails and Eyes
― Nails and Eyes
“Look for what you notice but no one else sees.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“But since you must kill to eat, and rob the newly born of its mother’s milk to quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship,”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet
“There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?”
― Nails and Eyes
― Nails and Eyes
“This life is a long cheat, full of promises that can never be kept, errors that can never be righted, omissions that can never be filled.”
― Silver on the Tree
― Silver on the Tree
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