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Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Onlyâif you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesnât it? And isnât the whole point of thingsâbeautiful thingsâthat they connect you to some larger beauty?
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I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.
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A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we donât get to choose our own hearts. We canât make ourselves want whatâs good for us or whatâs good for other people. We donât get to choose the people we are.
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That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesnât mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if weâre not always so glad to be here, itâs our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesnât touch.
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When you feel homesick,â he said, âjust look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.
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But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.
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Every new eventâeverything I did for the rest of my lifeâwould only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.
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