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“This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.”
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“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― A Tour Round My Garden
― A Tour Round My Garden
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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“He does not always remain bent over the
pages; he often leans back and closes
his eyes over a line he has been reading
again, and its meaning spreads through
his blood.”
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pages; he often leans back and closes
his eyes over a line he has been reading
again, and its meaning spreads through
his blood.”
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