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There are memories. Vague and fleeting. Or sharp and searing. Moods leaving a sense of urgency. Or disquiet. Or a sense of well-being and belonging. And always, objects inhabit the memories.
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I am not even sure there was really a room like that. There are some rooms, real or imagined, some moments, some aspects of light that haunt you.
Apr 13, 2016 02:52PM
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Carmen is on page 141 of 160
Here is another countess. The Countess of Castiglione.

I cannot take my eyes off her.

So exhausted. So broken. And maybe not.

Happy and sad.

Hopeless and hopeful.

We are alive. End of story.

We are alive and that is glorious all we have.
Apr 13, 2016 03:05PM
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Carmen is on page 135 of 160
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody and everything. One lives only to make blunders. I am going to write a little book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them more worse than everything. So farewell & in a sweet frame of mind,

I am

Ever Yours

C. Darwin
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Apr 13, 2016 03:03PM
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Carmen
Carmen is on page 61 of 160
Watching a person eat soup can break your heart.
Apr 13, 2016 02:57PM
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Carmen
Carmen is on page 59 of 160
The ability to take a walk from one point to the next point, that is half the battle won.

Go out and walk.

That is the glory of life.

After taking a walk you will probably be hungry. You will want to eat something.
Apr 13, 2016 02:57PM
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Carmen
Carmen is on page 23 of 160
My mother was completely beautiful. Everyone was in love with her. If Tolstoy had been alive, he would have loved her madly. So would have Gogol. Kafka. Nabokov. Who else? Balzac? Of course. Dostoevsky? Why not? Our gentle neighbor, the man with the crooked thumb? Yes, he loved her too.

But my father was the lucky man.
Apr 13, 2016 02:55PM
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Carmen is on page 9 of 160
Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?
Apr 13, 2016 02:45PM
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