We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.
("Smilla's Sense of Snow")
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I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.Peter Høeg
The cookies combine butter and spices in such a way that you could eat a hundred of them and only realize how sick you are after it's too late.
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On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.
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I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school.
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As far as I'm concerned, you could send all the cars in the world through a compactor and shoot them out through the stratosphere and put them in orbit around Mars. Except, of course, the taxis that have to be at my disposal when I need them.
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