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“I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses. To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights – then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
― Henry David Thoreau

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“History has failed us, but no matter.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko