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Clarise Ng
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“In our first week here I found [my daughter] sobbing in her bed, missing her home and the girl she calls her best friend; and I was smitten by guilt and a feeling of wrongdoing, a feeling that I was not, myself, sufficiently adult to have imposed by destiny in another. But she is my daughter: our destinies are better off intertwined.”
— 11 hours, 9 min ago
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Clarise Ng
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“But first and foremost [Italian cuisine] is kind to children. Consider the pizza: all around the world the pizza has come to represent the deepest forms of security known to the human palate. It is like a smiling face: it assuages the fear of complexity by showing everything on its surface.”
— 7 hours, 32 min ago
Clarise Ng
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“I have understood, I think, Piero’s message, though its tidings are not of joy. It is at once more rational than joy and more beautiful. It is that you must seek a truth that lies beyond human concerns. I keep this with me as the days pass. The white birds on the water; the light slanting through the window. The man rising from his tomb, full of terrible knowledge.”
— 23 hours, 39 min ago
Clarise Ng
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“I think of how fortunate it is that there is a word—holiday—which not only explains the experience of going to bed in strange rooms but decrees it to be pleasurable.”
— Aug 18, 2026 02:05AM