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“Tell people who you are without saying a word.”
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“These—the shared, simple acts of everyday life—are the realities on which international understanding can be built.”
― War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
― War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
“It was they who taught me that a conversation even between strangers could be a gift and sport of sorts, a chance for warmth, banter, blessings, humor, that spoken words could be fire at which you warmed yourself.”
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
“Sometimes the window looks inside the house and sometimes it looks outside the house! Act like a window, sometimes turn inside, look at yourself, watch yourself, sometimes turn outside, look around, and observe outside!”
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“You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light. Under the bare trees the wildflowers bloom so thick you can't walk without stepping on them. The pastures turn green and the leaves come.
You look around presently, and it is summer. It has been dry a while, maybe, and now it has rained. The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand.”
― Hannah Coulter
You look around presently, and it is summer. It has been dry a while, maybe, and now it has rained. The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand.”
― Hannah Coulter
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