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“We feel our identities like gravity: They anchor us. But our identities are not the sum total of all we are, or all we can be...as soon as I let those identities calcify in me, I limit my connection to others: I stop growing. I am learning how to dance between the gravity of my identity and the stars, our truest ancestral home.”
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“Every writer has only one story to tell, and he has to find a way of telling it until the meaning becomes clearer and clearer, until the story becomes at once more narrow and larger, more and more precise, more and more reverberating.”
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“I have long been convinced, though every profession is necessary and honourable in its turn, it is only the lot of those who are not obliged to follow any, who can live in a regular way, in the country, choosing their own hours, following their own pursuits, and living on their own property, without the torment of trying for more; it is only their lot, I say, to hold the blessings of health and a good appearance to the utmost: I know no other set of men but what lose something of their personableness when they cease to be quite young.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
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