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“He started to estrange her...
And they became strangers
Who knew each other's heart,
So broken as they drifted apart.”
― Pierrot & Columbine
And they became strangers
Who knew each other's heart,
So broken as they drifted apart.”
― Pierrot & Columbine
“You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.”
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“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“As we apprentice ourselves to the way of nature, we begin to understand that all of life is in a continuous cycle of giving and receiving. It is the honouring of this cycle that makes us feel at home in ourselves and in relation to the rest of nature. In order to experience true belonging, we must not only acknowledge the gifts we are receiving, but also give our beauty away, no matter how it may be received by others.”
― Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home
― Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home
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