The surest sign of age is loneliness.
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I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.Annie Dillard
The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit, till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
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Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell No, said the priest, not if you did not know
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Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place.
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The life of sensation is the life of greed it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less time is ample and its passage sweet.
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