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““One habit: choosing a book and starting each day with a dedicated time of reading and gazing, becoming an apprentice to a mind I admire.””

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Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.

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It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

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“There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.”

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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that…

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