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“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again