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It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the
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“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”
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“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― Blindness
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“There's no doubt that he's heading straight for tragedy. It will be beautiful, of course, but should he throw his whole life away as a sacrificial offering to such a fleeting beauty--like a bird in flight glimpsed from a window?”
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― Spring Snow
“Don't you know, If you don't step outside yourself, you'll never discover who you are”
― The Tale of the Unknown Island
― The Tale of the Unknown Island
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