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“If you bring forth what is inside you, what is inside you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is inside, what is inside you will destroy you.”
“The poet Rilke once reported seeing a dying dog give its mistress a look full of reproach. Later, he gave this experience to the narrator of a novel: He was convinced I could have prevented it. It was now clear that he had always overrated me. And there was no time left to explain it to him. He continued to gaze at me, surprised and solitary, until it was over.”
― The Friend
― The Friend
“remember the small things, and the big things will work themselves out.”
― The Tattooist of Auschwitz
― The Tattooist of Auschwitz
“They don’t commit suicide. They don’t weep. But they can and do fall to pieces. They can and do have their hearts broken. They can and do lose their minds.”
― The Friend
― The Friend
“Tempted to put too much faith in the great male mind, remember this: It looked at cats and declared them gods. It looked at women and asked, Are they human? And, once that nut had been cracked: But do they have souls?”
― The Friend
― The Friend
“If we could talk to animals, goes the song.
Meaning, if they could talk to us.
But of course that would ruin everything.”
― The Friend
Meaning, if they could talk to us.
But of course that would ruin everything.”
― The Friend
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