“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
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“Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.”
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“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Sailing Alone around the World
― Sailing Alone around the World
“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador
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