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Notes: 397 / 11 months ago
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"I couldn’t live where there were no trees—something vital in me would starve."
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L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams
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Notes: 374 / 1 year ago
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"Stuff your eyes with wonder … live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
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Notes: 563 / 1 year ago
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"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."
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Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude
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Notes: 106 / 1 year ago
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"All we have to believe with is our senses: the tools we use to perceive the world, our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end."
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Notes: 1276 / 1 year ago
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"It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know."
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Notes: 822 / 1 year ago
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"When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune."
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Notes: 369 / 1 year ago
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"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people’s eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth."
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Notes: 238 / 1 year ago
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"There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
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Notes: 344 / 1 year ago
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"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
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Henry David Thoreau, Journal, August 5, 1851
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Notes: 187 / 1 year ago
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"The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable."