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What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either.

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...and awakening, at that moment, to the thrilling prospect of complete surrender, not just of one’s lips but of one’s entire body to a lover’s mercy,...more

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What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.

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How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater...more

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...every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand one´s own eternally mysterious uniqueness o...more

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The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.

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Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beaut...more

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In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely belie...more