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Barbara Kingsolver

"Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization."

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"Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization."

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"In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15)."
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"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
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