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The Story of Art
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Hanya Yanagihara
“It isn't only that he died, or how died; it is what he died believing. And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him”
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
tags: love

Tara Westover
“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
Tara Westover, Educated

Pico Iyer
“The ultimate purpose of Zen," I remembered the röshi telling me, "is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.”
Pico Iyer, The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
tags: life, zen

Hanya Yanagihara
“There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to him and nothing was asked in return”
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
tags: family

Pico Iyer
“To do what I want, and not to do what I won't - this is why I entered such a life.”
Pico Iyer, The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
tags: life

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