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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?”
― Bridge of Sighs
― Bridge of Sighs
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
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“The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long distance to reach this planet; an infinitesimal portion of that sunlight was enough to warm my eyelids. I was moved. That something as insignificant as an eyelid had its place in the workings on the universe, that the cosmic order did not overlook this momentary fact.”
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