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“Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to light, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of tem
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I took a medium-sized bottle of Jim Beam and drank from it under the covers while reading No Man Is an Island by Thomas Merton. Without God, we are no longer persons. We become dumb animals under pain, happy if we can behave at least like quiet animals and die without too much confusion.
from The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson
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“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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It is a story difficult to put into words, this. I never tell it, in fact, or never have before. I told no one at the time, not my friends, not my family: there seemed no way to translate what had happened into grammar and syntax.
from I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
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insignificant. I knew, in that moment, and perhaps for the first time, that I would one day die, that at some point there would be nothing left of me, my mittens, my breathing, my curls, my hat. I felt that conviction for the first time. My death felt like a person standing there next to me.
from I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
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When Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was read to me and Alice sighs, “Oh, how I long to run away from normal days! I want to run wild with my imagination,” I remember rising up from my pillow and thinking, yes, yes, that’s it exactly.
from I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
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Have I allowed myself to be so lulled, so infantilised by the ever-present, always anticipated service of this luxury resort that I have surrendered my free will, my judgement?
from I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
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