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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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“And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.”
― The Orchardist
― The Orchardist
“The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life. He is capable of seeing what is beautiful because he carries beauty within himself, for the world is a mirror and gives back to each man the reflection of his own face.”
― Warrior of the Light
― Warrior of the Light
“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.”
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“Poetry ain’t what you’d call truth. There ain’t room enough in the verses.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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