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“ However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It's only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once. ”

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Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

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And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

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The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.

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...words can help us to see what is graceful or human where lovelines and humanity seem to fail...

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