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“When you’re anxious to learn something and need to get better as quickly as possible…the solution is to make it part of your daily life. After all, there’s no greater teacher than life itself.”
― Kamome Shirahama, Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 2

“I yearned for everything long gone.”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

“By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.”
― Donna Haraway

“I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

“L’amour n’est pas consolation, il est lumière.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!”
― Dr. Seuss