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2026: It’s been three years since my last reread of this collection. I’m curious what I’ll find in it now, and whether Mary Oliver’s warmth will meet me differently this time.--------------------------------------------------
2023
I cannot express how ...more "
“A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
but then he’s still left
with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
but then he’s still left with his hands.”
― Crush
but then he’s still left
with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
but then he’s still left with his hands.”
― Crush
“Keep alive the dream; for as long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living.”
― Meditations of the Heart
― Meditations of the Heart
“A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.”
― The Man in the High Castle
― The Man in the High Castle
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”
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