Awareness Quote by Peter Behrens

“Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?”

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“Burning aviators, clots of fire. The reeking night jar in our bedroom in Muswell Hill. Children skipping round me in a school yard, shouting…

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“I was suddenly afraid she was going to climb the rail and leap into the sea. But maybe she wasn't. Maybe it was a delusion, my delusion. Maybe it was the fever coming on. Maybe what I really experienced on the steamer was the frightening, awe-inspiring sense we had been cut loose, were beyond the sight of land, lost. After…

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“I don't want to lose you over tedious genealogy and history that must be very dim to you. This is a story of real…

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“Sooner or later everyone disguises themselves and where they have been and what they have done.”

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“Perhaps if I had been able to put things in plain language, it might have been plain that things between us were so damnably…

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“Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is how people…

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“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.”

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