“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.”
― The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
― The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
“I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.”
― The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
― The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
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