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“După ce a pierdut atâția tați, umbra lăsată de casa noastră devenise mult mai mare și mai îndesată față de umbrele caselor învecinate. Era ca și cum ar fi purtat doliu, învelită într-un văl ieșit din ea însăși. Celelalte case aveau umbre subțiri, plăcute, vara le țineau loc de copertine sau de pălărie. A noastră avea o umbră profundă, care te lua cu ea ca apa și, dacă nu erai atent, te puteai îneca în ea, așa mi se părea. Am învățat curând să deosebesc casele după umbră. Cele cu umbre ca abisul pierduseră oameni dragi.”
― Ioana Pârvulescu, Inocenții

tags: inocenții, ioana-pârvulescu

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“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: inspirational, women

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“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

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“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight To Arras

tags: life, philosophy

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“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

tags: death, meaning

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