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We divide up the world as though there were real borders rather than delicately shaded degrees between the crazy and the same, the good and the destructive
— Jul 22, 2026 03:34PM
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Pain serves a purpose. Without it, you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
— Jul 19, 2026 03:04PM
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Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it… They are, ideally, places where nothing happens, and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens into another world… engrossing books are landscapes into which readers vanish. (Flight)
— Jul 18, 2026 06:06AM