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Book cover for Mexican Gothic
This was England, most likely, preserved in oils and silver frames.
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Preserving the past (diluted colors as memories fade) v living in the present moment (bright, fresh colors)
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Epictetus
“What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.”
Epictetus

Richelle E. Goodrich
“A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Gabrielle Zevin
“Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Arthur Conan Doyle
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

Osamu Dazai
“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

Everything passes.”
Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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