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There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.
A light here required a shadow there.
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?