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by
Anne Rice
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March 2 - March 27, 2017
his belief that the only true laws of the universe are aesthetic laws, the laws that govern the natural beauty we see all around us on the planet.
It’s the doom of beings to read patterns in the stars, to give them names, to cherish their slowly shifting positions and clusters. But the stars never say a word.
love is the only defense we ever have against the cold meaninglessness around us—
Likely they knew how I lived my life, riding wave after wave of instinct and emotion, driven by immense greed as well as generosity.
Maybe those who rose into the Light simply died, and the universe beyond this world was silent.
What is man that he is so mindful of himself and knows so little of the consequences of what he does!”
Does a ghost become the full expression of the mortal and the immortal? Does a ghost embrace the entire past of the being?
