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• The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in…
• The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of…
• How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
• I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND…
• Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime,…
• Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in…
• For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of…
• The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists…
• I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the…
• Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done…
• Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
• When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your…

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