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I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.
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A guesstimate?" prompted the man Enrique. "About your dad?" "Ballpark will do," the Korean lady said."
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Are you going somewhere?" I said, regarding him timidly. The suit made him seem a different person, less melancholy and distracted, more capable--unlike the Hobie of my first visit, with his bedraggled aspect of an elegant but mistreated polar bear."
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When I'd asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she'd looked at me as if I'd asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap.)
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else it is--is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not
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Our large age difference made us shy with each other; there was a formality, a generational reserve;
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To try to make some meaning out of all this seems
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of huddled anonymity like old black and white photos I'd seen of bank crashes and bread lines in the 1930s.
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Because--the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.
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What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue?
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passed--Snoopy, Ronald McDonald,
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Beauty alters the grain of reality.
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meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we're not
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bailiwick
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I've come to believe that there's no truth beyond
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An invisible, bedrock rightness that reassured me just as it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swarm untroubled in Baltic Waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly for the salvation of the world
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It's crazy," she'd said, "but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane."
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See?" said Boris, interrupting Vitya right in"
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it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?
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Estamos tan acostumbrados a disfrazarnos para los demas que al final nos disfrazamos para nosotros mismos. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
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changing the plan at the last moment. "Oh, come on. The chicken can wait. Can't it? Sure it can." He was talking a mile a minute. "You can put the other thing back"
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He's a funny one," said Ida. "Here's how he sound." She pursed her lips and, expertly, imitated the red-winged blackbird's call: not the liquid piping of the wood thrush, which dipped down into the dry
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As terrible as this is, I get it. WE can't choose what we want and don't want and that's the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it's going to kill us. We can't escape who we are
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I felt disincarnate, cut loose from myself. How it would feel to be back in my body again I couldn't imagine.
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And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky--so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime. And that's why I've chosen to write thes..
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.
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Things would have been terribly strange and unbalanced without her. She was the Queen who finished out the suit of dark Jacks, dark King, and Joker.
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I've never met anyone who made me feel loved the way she did. Everything came alive in her company; she cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through her eyes was to see it in brighter colors than ordinary--
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Porque- ja nao e incutido em nos constantemente, desde a infancia, um lugar-comum nao questionado na cultura? De William Blake a Lady Gaga, de Rousseau a Rumi, passando pela Tosca e pelo Sr. Rogers, e uma mensagem curiosamente uniforme, aceita de alto a baixo - quando em duvida, o que fazer? Como sabemos qual e a coisa certa para nos? Qualquer psiquiatra, qualquer orientador vocacional, qualquer princesa da Disney sabe a resposta: "seja voc..
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E talvez seja ridiculo continuar nesse raciocinio, embora nao importe ja que ninguem nunca vai ver isso, mas sera que faz algum sentido saber que acaba mal pra todo mundo, ate para os mais felizes de nos, e que todos perdemos tudo o que importa no final, e ao mesmo tempo saber que, apesar de tudo isso, segundo a cruel elaboracao do jogo, e possivel joga-lo com uma especie de alegria?
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I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.' " "Yes--but why give it a name? Can't they both be the same thing?"
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Whe can't escape who we are
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good-natured groom on
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highboys
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With the striped umbrella and the pistachio ices?
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At this question, I felt a sharp rush of despair - for as bad as I felt there was nothing he could do for me, and from his face, I realized he knew that, too.
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When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.
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grief
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comforting
possessions
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Zidovi boje cimeta, kisa na prozorskim daskama, zamasna tisina i osjecaj dubine i daljine, poput laka na pozadini slike iz devetnaestog stoljeca.
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Maybe, I thought- reaching in the bag, taking out a stack of money and looking it over- maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in. You didn't feel anything at first.
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despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I'd liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I'd met him was that he was never afraid. You didn't meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call "the Planet of Earth." --
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Once, over dinner, Henry was quite startled to learn from me that men had walked on the moon. "No," he said, putting down his fork. "It's true," chorused the rest, who had somehow managed to pick this up along the way. "I don't believe it." "I saw it," said Bunny. "It was on television." "How did they get there? When did this happen?")."
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What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?
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It was sometimes difficult to believe that Dr. Roland was a tenured professor in the Social Science Department of this, a distinguished college. He was more like some gabby old codger who would sit next to you on a bus and try to show you bits of paper he kept folded in his wallet.
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The writhing loathsomeness of the biological order. Old age, sickness, death. No escape for anyone. Even the beautiful ones were like soft fruit about to spoil.
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