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“[B]e comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember: You will be dead and buried soon enough.”
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“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
― The Bridge of San Luis Rey
― The Bridge of San Luis Rey
“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
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“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Stray Birds
― Stray Birds
“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
― The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
― The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
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