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“Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks about changing themselves.”
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“You might try to guess at the truncated final sentence or gaze at the middle letter of "but" as though it might swing open on its hinges to reveal a peephole through which you could see a disappointed heart, reduced by lost opportunities.”
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“People don’t love us for being perfect. Sometimes we forget that the places where we are broken are the places where we shine with gold, where we hold the potential to connect deeply with other beings.”
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“Don't run after a street car that doesn't want to stop for you.”
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“Grief among other things is a loss of rhythm, you lose someone, it puts a hole in your life, and for a time you huddle down in that hole. In coming to the MET, I saw an opportunity to conflate my hole with a grand cathedral to linger in a place that seemed untouched by the rhythms of the every day. But those rhythms have found me and their invitations are alluring.”
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
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