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“I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French it means sadness. In Spanish it is tristeza, which is heavier than French sadness, more of a groan than a whisper.”
― Hot Milk
― Hot Milk
“I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.”
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“The unloved watch the loved perform the small rituals of their loving.”
― The Unloved
― The Unloved
“You've got to understand your limitations. It's your limitations that make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.”
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“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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