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Meli
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“Some of you will have fine monuments by which the living may remember the evil done to you. Some of you will have only crude wooden crosses or painted rocks, while yet others of you must remain hidden in the shadows of history.”
― The Buried Giant
― The Buried Giant
“...temporal feature of memory--specifically the disintegration of memory traces--might function as internal signals for the passing of time.”
― Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time
― Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time
“They are locked in boxes the size of themselves. A body-box, like a coffin, but alive, like a home. The children, the veal, they stand very still because tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Then he took the sword in both hands and raised it—and Gawain’s posture took on an unmistakable grandeur.”
― The Buried Giant
― The Buried Giant
“At home, with work over and done, what reason is there...not to spend an hour, every evening, doing x? X might stand for whatever holds personal interest: reading..., spending time on a collection of interesting objects, taking a nighttime stroll on one's own or with one's partner. Do one thing, with full attention, for an hour a day. Or just spend fifteen minutes sitting on the sofa and don't do anything for a change: How's my posture? Does anything hurt? How do I feel? We can give free rein to fantasy and observe how we may come to terms with the acceleration of the world that we experience.”
― Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time
― Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time
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Children's, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Spirituality, Young-adult, weird-fiction, cult-classics, modern-classics, folklore, criticism, food-writing, cuisine, detective, cultural, short-stories, gothic-revival, medievalism, oral-history, microhistory, sociology, planetary-romance, dying-earth, and ecology
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