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“When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar.The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given time: pain, grief, loss, even the possibility that...”
“It was as if his song was one voice, calling out into the darkness until it was answered by another, harmonizing with its own unique voice and emotion to create something even more beautiful than t...”
“When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than the u...”
“...reflection can transform something familiar.”
“Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. Thats why we don't know so much about stupidity.”
“I keep coming back to certain books, and youto try to find myself again”
“Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don't know so much about stupidity.”
“I keep coming back to certain books, and you—to try to find myself again”