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“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
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“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.”
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“Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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