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I don’t remember the song she sang – I never really liked her songs – but standing in that empty concert hall, listening to her sing without backing music, with no support of any kind, I found that the sheer beauty of the voice, its
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“I am seized by two contradictory feelings: there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable for a moment; there is so much shit in the world that it is incredible we are ever happy for a moment.”
― Feel Free: Essays
― Feel Free: Essays
“We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us.”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
“Between propriety and joy choose joy.”
― Feel Free: Essays
― Feel Free: Essays
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?”
― Educated
― Educated
“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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