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“Don't underestimate the poor, because his soul treasures to Phoenix of Wits”
“I looked around and thought about my life. I felt grateful. I noticed every detail. That is the key to time travel. You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are...”
“-Truly, freeing oneself in one’s own mind is only the first step on a path of freedom.-”
“. . . distant as the death of grocery chickens.”
“& besides, I don’tdesign my smiles to be nets because I’m not fishing”
“No Brasil não há outonomas as folhas caem- In Brazil there is no autumnbut the leaves fall”
“My pond life with hydra is over”
“I’m on a long journey around and through myself...”
“When I/Don’t know/What to say,/Let me/Listen.”
“HereYou always belonged here.You were theirs, certain as a rock.I’m the one who worriesif I fit in with the furniture and the landscape. But I “follow too muchthe devices and desires of my own hear...”
“Being happy has -huge- advantages. One, you smile more. Training of facial muscles. Automatic! But did you know that the risible muscle, the one that gets the biggest benefit, is part of the stomac...”
“We don’t need to wait for Heaven. Heaven is with us now.”
“I do not dye my hair blackso as to be young again and sin againbut because people dye their clothes black in mourning,so I have dyed my hair black, mourning for my old age.”
“Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.”
“What to AcceptThe fact of mountains. The actualityOf any stone — by kicking, if necessary. The need to ignore stupid people, While restraining one's natural impulseTo murder them. The change from y...”
“I made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some ...”
“Authors pretend their stories were always shiny and perfect and just waiting to be written. The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. Even I have lied a...”
“I’m in no hurry. What for?The sun and moon aren’t in a hurry: they’re right.Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs,Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow.No; I don’t know h...”
“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things”
“I, too, head for the Baths of Caracalla,thinking—with my old, magnificentprivilege of thinking…(And let there still be a god in me that thinks,lost, weak, and childish,yet whose voice is so humanit...”
