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“Tell people who you are without saying a word.”
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“He felt at peace only in the hour before dawn, when the darkness seemed to give way slowly to a mist, and it was at this hour that he would wake and sit by his window.”
― Hawksmoor
― Hawksmoor

“Sometimes the window looks inside the house and sometimes it looks outside the house! Act like a window, sometimes turn inside, look at yourself, watch yourself, sometimes turn outside, look around, and observe outside!”
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“They were served asparagus in a mousseline sauce so delicious you could faint, then the Easter pâté à la Paulette Lestafier, then a roasted carré d'agneau accompanied by tians of tomatoes, and zucchini with thyme flowers, then a tart of strawberries and wild strawberries with homemade whipped cream.”
― Hunting and Gathering
― Hunting and Gathering

“It was they who taught me that a conversation even between strangers could be a gift and sport of sorts, a chance for warmth, banter, blessings, humor, that spoken words could be fire at which you warmed yourself.”
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

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