"It is not learning we need at all.……" — Lydia Millet
"It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep."
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Lydia Millet
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9 Quotes by Lydia Millet
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Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.
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Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete…
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We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished ...
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The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is…
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Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.
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Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity ...
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The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when…
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Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might…
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