“ I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same, slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones, icily free above the stones, above the stones and then the world. If you should dip your hand in, your wrist would ache immediately, your bones would begin to ache and your hand would burn as if the water were a transmutation of fire that feeds on stones and burns with a dark gray flame. If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter, then briny, then surely burn your tongue. It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn form the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown. ”
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“ What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around? ”
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“ Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. ”
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“ For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. ”
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“ The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. ”
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