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"Even as I hold youI think of you as someone gonefar, far away. Your eyes the colorof pennies in a bowl of dark honeybringing sweet light to someone elseyour black hair slipping through my fingersis the flash of your head goingaround a corneryour smile, breaking before me,the flippant last turnof a revolving door,emptying you out, changed,away from me.Even as I hold youI am letting go."
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"Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones."
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"We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to others that suddenly must be filled; there are no lakes till eternity. Here, falling is best. To fall from the mastered emotion into the guessed-at, and onward."
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"Time melts away in every passing moment."
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"Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future."
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"A red leaf danced from a branch like a dropping flame, down into the calm blue lake. A gust had broken it free. There was a cold bite in the wind. It was now deep autumn in the mountains."
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"I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever". Maybe because forever is such a scary place."
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"Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life-a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple-the painter is giving you a secret message. He's telling you that living things don't last-it's all temporary. Death in life. That's why they're called natures mortes. Maybe you don't see it at first with all the beauty and bloom, the little speck of rot. But if you look closer-there it is."
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"Memories, like everything else, are momentary."
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"Don't wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow may be too late. If we know how to live according to the insight of impermanence, we will not make many mistakes. We can be happy right now. We can love our beloved, care for her, and make her happy today. And we won't run toward the future, losing our life, which is available only in the present moment."
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"Feelings are fleeting, no matter how eart-shattering they seem; they never last, always change."
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"Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me."
God
"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears."
Mind
"The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate."
Experience
"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."
Life
"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
Art
"I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have."
Heart
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."
Nature
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
Nothing
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
Friendship
"Even as I hold you, I am letting you go."
Emotion
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