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“The blackboard’s black surface was an exact replica of our minds. We knew little, and the little that we knew came out haltingly”

“Don’t you have a hole in your stomach? I could stable an ox in mine.”

im stealing that.

“What crossed my mind— so many things were always crossing it— was more fleeting and less enduring than the clouds which cords the sky.”

Tell me about it 😭

I was near them, part of them. I was not entirely one of them

He’s like a bird, never in the same place, can’t stay on one tree. He needs the whole sky.

The mystery of things, their how and why, conduces to silence. It is enough for such men to observe things and recognize their impenetrability. You can see this state of mind reflected in their eyes.

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He remained preoccupied, still in that reverie which he indulged in endlessly in the fields.

“I imagined I know not what mysterious conversations, the hand inquired, and the tremor replied…”

Regarding the relationship of his dad and the little black snake. I love the way this was written! The imagery

“What was the right path for me? Did I know yet where that path lay? My perplexity was boundless as the sky and mine was a sky alas, without any stars.”