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“All freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there, as when they “free” wild animals into nature preserves only to contain them yet again by larger borders. But I took it anyway, that widening. Because sometimes not seeing the bars is enough.”
— Oct 28, 2025 07:28AM
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Gabriel
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“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
Reading this book is like walking through an art museum of gorgeous prose. Line after line, page after page, of stunning imagery.
— Oct 28, 2025 07:31AM
Reading this book is like walking through an art museum of gorgeous prose. Line after line, page after page, of stunning imagery.
