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- Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid…
- Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the…
- Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
- If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences…
- The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but…
- See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason.…
- ... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.
- Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.
- We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is…
- Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we…
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