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But if I’d waited, I would have had to spend almost two span without a lute. It would be like missing a tooth or a limb. It would be like spending two span with my mouth sewn shut. It was unthinkable.
“No, sir, destruction is not necessary for art.” I said that, not because I was certain, but because I thought my saying it would help me believe it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Is that what art is? To be touched thinking what we feel is ours when, in the end, it was someone else, in longing, who finds us?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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