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Birds are not difficult to understand. Their behaviour tells me what they are thinking. Generally it runs along the lines of: Is this food? Is this? What about this? This might be food. I am almost certain that this is. Or occasionally: It ...more
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
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“No matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reign in the cemetery.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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