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"Finished “Father Sergius”. Sometimes didactic, yet nevertheless poignant fable about living vicariously through the gaze of others." — Feb 17, 2018 09:13AM
"Finished “Father Sergius”. Sometimes didactic, yet nevertheless poignant fable about living vicariously through the gaze of others." — Feb 17, 2018 09:13AM
“They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”
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“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
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“The Chinese remind us that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, yet they keep curiously silent about the step itself, which too often must be taken, as now, from inaccessible ground, if not indeed straight down into an unmeasured abyss.”
― Against the Day
― Against the Day
“It's astounding the first time you realize that a stranger has a body - the realization that he has a body makes him a stranger. It means that you have a body, too. You will live with this forever, and it will spell out the language of your life.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?”
― Against the Day
― Against the Day
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