"There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March"

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Jane Hirshfield

#Light Quotes #Doors Quotes #Snow Quotes

“None of us know our real names.”
“Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.”
“Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.”
“If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.”
“The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that we can skip the experiments and figure things out from our armchairs. What they have in common, however, is regarding our concepts as the targets of philosophical theorising, and I just don't think that, in the vast majority of cases, the subject matter of philosophy has our concepts as its target.”
“Beauty is nothing, beauty wonâ€™t stay. You donâ€™t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know itâ€™s for something else.”
“Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.”
“I'll be ready. I'm not sure for what exactly. But maybe that's what being ready really means.”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.199, Penguin

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