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“A modern man, I do not make undue connections though my heart wrenches daily against the unknowable, almighty throb and heave of the universe against my skin that sings a song for which we haven't quite found the words.”

~ Jim Harrison (from Geo-Bestiary, 1998)

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This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar

Margaret Atwood, Eating Fire: Selected Poetry, 1965-95

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“It's taken me years to come to the conclusion, or to the belief, that probably the only thing one can really learn, the only technique to learn, is the capacity to be able to change. And it's a very difficult thing. But as modern artists that's our fate, constant change.

I don't mean novelty or anything like that. What I mean is that this serious play, which we call art, can't be static. I mean you have to keep learning how to play in new ways all the time.”

Philip Guston (from ‘I Paint What I Want to See’ 2022)

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Kurt Vonnegut

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Viktor Frankl (from ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’)

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Jim Harrison (from ‘Returning to Earth’ 1977)

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‘Dear Mrs Moore, Thank you  so much for bringing me pears. They are extremely good. Yours sincerely, Ludg Wittgenstein’

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“Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.”

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Published June 1st 1978 by Harvest Books (first published October 1931)

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Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there’s something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so it’s not that. But sometimes it can be nice. It’s not like I sit here philosophizing, because I’ve no talent for that. It’s just this thing about silence that’s so wonderful.

― Ingmar Bergman

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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

- James Baldwin

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She reached him her mouth and drank his full kiss, drank it fuller and fuller. And it was so good, it was very, very good. She seemed to be filled with his kiss, filled as if she had drunk strong, glowing sunshine. She glowed all inside, the sunshine seemed to beat upon her heart underneath, she had drunk so beautifully.

D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow

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-Anaïs Nin, 1939

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Speculum Naturale by Vincent de Beauvais. Belgian, 1280 CE.

The Bakken Museum, Minneapolis.