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"Everything is only a transition."
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Explore more quotes by Jeanette Winterson
"A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?"
"I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to."
"Infatuation. First Love. Lust. My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals."
"Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture."
"Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully."
"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."
"Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world."
"The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich."
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