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“I see the past as it actually was," Maeve said. She was looking at the trees.

"But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

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“We had made a fetish out of our misfortune, fallen in love with it. I was sickened to realize we’d kept it going for so long, not that we had decided to stop.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

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“I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but not know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden & Civil Disobedience

tags: imprisonment, inspirational, mind, minimalism, wealth

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“We order our lives with barely held stories. As if we have been lost in a confusing landscape, gathering what was invisible and unspoken, sewing it all together in order to survive, incomplete, ignored like the sea pea on those mined beaches during the war.”
― Ondaatje Michael.

tags: life

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“Grant me one more day of love, God, and one more, and another. One more blue afternoon with my children’s voices filling the sky—this, my only music. One more sight of their breath rising in plumes against the cold, so I may know they’re still breathing. Give me time enough to fix these memories in my heart. Let me write this love upon my soul.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Ragged Edge of Night

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