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The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possessed by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, some it’s your whole soul.

Maybe you spend your whole life just to figure out a smart part of it

I used to dream about living a life that felt true to my own values, my own sense of things. Of course when it came time to act on that in the real world I found I just didn’t have the courage

I couldn’t stand the idea of going back like that and admitting that it had all been a total failure