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Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through...
—Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Perhaps

Perhaps good exists only to intensify the experience of bad via contrast.

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Friday, June 25, 2021

Easier (Neruda)

What is my poetry? I don’t know. It would be easier to ask my poetry who am I.

Pablo Neruda

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Thursday, June 24, 2021

Lessons

Life is full of lessons
that death renders irrelevant.

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Saturday, June 19, 2021

Empathy

Empathy is the beginning, not the end.

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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

On fears

The most debilitating fears disguise themselves as practical concerns.

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Sunday, June 06, 2021

On choice

Choice is a chance.

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Wednesday, June 02, 2021

Sacrifice

A sacrifice is not diminished by the number of other people who also make it.

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