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Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?


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...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.



A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing.

A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing.



What do you think about America?""Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.

What do you think about America?""Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.



What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue?

What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue?



When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.

When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.



When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don't change.

When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don't change.



...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.



. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?



It’s a long story. I’ll make it short as I can.

It’s a long story. I’ll make it short as I can.





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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

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