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Golden Child
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and the ti-marie leaves firmly folding themselves shut at his touch, like old women closing their jalousies when they see the madman passing on the street.
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong … The only crime is pride. Sophocles”
― How To Stop Brexit
― How To Stop Brexit
“… be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and … try to love the questions themselves…. 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.” (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1934)”
― The Wheel of Creativity: Taking Your Place in the Adventure of Life
― The Wheel of Creativity: Taking Your Place in the Adventure of Life
“Doubt now riots against certainty—”
― The Miniaturist
― The Miniaturist
“it is a prison. And its bars are made of murderous hypocrisy”
― The Miniaturist
― The Miniaturist
“Any person’s behaviour would mutate under such constant scrutiny, such bigoted piety – neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all.”
― The Miniaturist
― The Miniaturist
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