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— Clarice Lispector, from “Report on the Thing.”
— Raymond Carver, from “Gazebo.”
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— Clarice Lispector, from “Report on the Thing.”
— Raymond Carver, from “Gazebo.”
“It’s funny how someone who was just a stranger last year, can mean so much to you now. It’s terrible that someone who meant so much to you last year, can be just a stranger now.”— Unknown
Jean-Michel Maulpoix, excerpts from “The Blue Look”, in A Matter of Blue: Poems (trans. Dawn M. Cornelio)
Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Homer, The Iliad
[Of course, these are not Homer’s words but those of David Benioff, now perhaps more famous for being the creator and show-runner of Game of Thrones]