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Do only what you like, as long as it is of some use to you. Leave hesitation and scruples to small minds,
Anyone who walks from her own grave relies on the unexpected.
The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
Granted a second life, you must find in it more meaning than you could ever determine in your first.
Like any child, she looked out and across rather than in.
“How do I know what is nonsense and what isn’t?” “If you’re ever in doubt, throw a pepper up in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don’t trust in anything.”
the dreams of humans, which are draped like tattered clouds above their homes until the sunlight bleaches them invisible.
She rubbed her bosom as if polishing a knob of furniture.
“Understanding how the land chooses to spread itself about isn’t my strength.
What keeps a river in its banks but the spirits of the drowned, the titans and Nereids, whose time has passed, and who in shame and righteous humility cover themselves with their watery blanket?
“You don’t believe there is a Tree of Knowledge,” said Vicente, “and I don’t either.” “I believe you have to go looking,” she said. “Maybe you’ll grow faith enough to find what the world has kept hidden all these centuries.
I read dark meanings into the writhings of coincidence.
Faith is a floor. If you don’t work at making it for yourself, you have nothing to walk on.”
beauty makes one believe.”
Silence can be tactical. Even God used silence as a strategy.
Her heart suddenly a blue onion in her chest, cold and layered and stinging in its own juices,
lore was only lore, a system of thinking decayed from some more ancient, blurry hypothesis, deteriorating toward a superstitious tic or ridiculous custom.
What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait for the next reason to wake?
What a liability a slanted mind was.
A mirror’s image is always forward of the truth by an instant or so.
the mirror always knows the answer before the question is asked.
mirrors don’t lie about men, only women.
