Daily Letter

Nothing · Inspiration & Quotes

It could be in the stars, in your heart but not in your palms. Destiny is a wicked thing.
Logic says it's written
Faith says it can be rewritten

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Nothing is harder on the soul as the smell of dreams, while they’re evaporating 

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Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted.

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Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting.

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Much to think about

Some people attract an unusual amount of criticism and projection simply by existing. If, from a young age, you were made to feel that you could do nothing right in the eyes of others, you can only survive and enact your will in this world by learning not to internalize their opinions and beliefs. If that process happens through comparison and intellectualization, it can harden into narcissism. But if it happens through acceptance and an almost hermaphroditic/virginal level of self-focus, you learn something rarer: how to loosen the grip of others’ perceptions, and eventually, how to author perception itself.

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I never have been in despair about the world. Enraged. I've been enraged by the world, but never despair. I cannot afford despair...you can't tell the children that there is no hope.

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Most of what I love I found by accident, on someone else's shelf. Taste is mostly a record of who you spent time with.

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Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Misc

Don’t be afraid. Get your mind around it. You can do it