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“When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: life

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“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, escape, reading

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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“You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

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“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

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