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- Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and…
- Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, so far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of…
- Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to…
- It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up…
- She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people…
- Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet,…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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