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“How vast was a human being’s capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn’t a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.”

“Without was poured a sea of radiance; within, the glory, though visible, was tempered to the capacities of man.”

“On the instant we come to realize that tragedy is second-hand.”

“Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past.”

“All human odes are essentially one: “My life: what I stole from history, and how I live with it.””

"Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow."