“I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.”
― Dune
― Dune
“WHY is the word which changed the world”
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“The Source of all things, the luminescence, has more forms than heaven’s stars, sure. And one good thought is all it takes to make it shine. But a single mistake can burn down a forest in your heart, hiding all the stars, in all the skies. And while a mistake’s still burning, ruined love or lost faith can make you think you’re done, and you can’t go on. But it’s not true. It’s never true. No matter what you do, no matter where you’re lost, the luminescence never leaves you. Any good thing that dies inside can rise again, if you want it hard enough. The heart doesn’t know how to quit, because it doesn’t know how to lie. You lift your eyes from the page, fall into the smile of a perfect stranger, and the searching starts all over again. It’s not what it was. It’s always different. It’s always something else. But the new forest that grows back in a scarred heart is sometimes wilder and stronger than it was before the fire. And if you stay there, in that shine within yourself, that new place for the light, forgiving everything and never giving up, sooner or later you’ll always find yourself right back there where love and beauty made the world: at the beginning. The beginning. The beginning.”
― The Mountain Shadow
― The Mountain Shadow
“Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time”
― Fugitive Pieces
― Fugitive Pieces
“Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.”
― Fugitive Pieces
― Fugitive Pieces
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