“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.”
― I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
― I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
“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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“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
― Mary
― Mary
“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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