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“He possessed a deeply private arrogance, a bedrock of self-certainty that needed neither proof nor explication—for although he had a warrior’s reputation, and an honorable standing within his tribe, his self-conception had not been shaped by his achievements. He simply knew that his beauty and his strength were without compare; he simply knew that he was better than most other men.”
― Anonymous

“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Travel offers the opportunity to find out who else one is, in that collapse of identity into geography I want to trace.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland