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I am learning that shifting through ailments, in particular, is how to make peace with anything happening at any moment, and that moving in and out of tricky comfort zones is a kind of subtle reckoning with mortality.
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“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
― Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
― Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
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