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"I send my letter into the air, remembering to show gratitude to nature, to bow my head, to have compassion for those who have not a loaf of bread, nor bed to sleep in, the weary vagabonds who yet somehow find ways to experience the exaltation of existence."

"We are on this chessboard Earth, we attempt to make our moves, but at times it seems as if the great hand of a disinterested giant haphazardly sends us on a trajectory of stumbling. What do we do? We step back and seek within ourselves what is needed to be done and serve the best we can."

"A profound if not scarring breach. I understood in that moment that one must discern between a dream and a calling."

"That is something I can do, sit quietly, go elsewhere and not return empty-handed."

"All the pennies in the world can't buy our Toyland back. The threshold is etched with notches we unwittingly carve ourselves."

"The unsullied memory of unpremeditated gestures of kindness. These are the bread of angels."

"If time was meaningless to God, why must we suffer it?"

Obstacles are our wings.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Patti Smith might be the greatest memoirist.

"The true path to progress is paved not with certainty but doubt, with being open to revision."

"... know that in every organism at which you gaze, there is complexity you will never comprehend."

"... to be clear-eyed and Good [is] to concede with every breath, with every step, our insignificance."

"Ignorance is the most delightful science in the world because it is acquired without labor or pains and keeps the mind from melancholy."

"You don't matter seems to fuel his every step, his every bite. So live as you please... While other people don't matter, either, treat them like they do."

"... science, generally, hates beliefs."

"Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatest of them all, because it is the only one that sins against life."

"There is a kind of minimum common humanity that you meet everywhere."

"There is no worse fate than being subjected to praise."

"It wasn't the past you had to avoid and ignore, it was its ossification. The same applied to the present. And when the movement art cultivated became static that was what you had to avoid and ignore. Not because it was modern, in tune with our times, but because it wasn't moving, it was dead."

"Or was it perhaps that the light that illuminated the world and made everything comprehensible also drained it of meaning?"

"Must I too have my foot thrust in the mess of life before I saw the pain?"

"Sooner or later one has to take sides... If one is to remain human."

"Perhaps truth and humility go together; so many lies come from our pride..."

"Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented Go - a being capable of understanding."