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to-the-waterfalls-of-the-sun · 2 months

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I’m here to tell you the tide will never stop coming in. I’m here to tell you whatever you build will be ruined, so make it beautiful.

“Spoiler” by Hala Alyan, The New Yorker

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to-the-waterfalls-of-the-sun · 5 months

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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

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to-the-waterfalls-of-the-sun · 6 months

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“The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”

— Howards End E.M. Forster

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to-the-waterfalls-of-the-sun · 6 months

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Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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to-the-waterfalls-of-the-sun · 7 months

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“The world is violent and mercurial- it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love- love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”

-Tennessee Williams

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to-the-waterfalls-of-the-sun · 7 months

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�� Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Gallant, V. E. Schwab

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to-the-waterfalls-of-the-sun · 8 months

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Ilya Kaminsky, from “Musica Humana [an elegy for Osip Mandelstam],” in Dancing in Odessa

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to-the-waterfalls-of-the-sun · 10 months

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“Do not aim for success- the more you aim at it and make it a target the more you will miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”

-Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

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to-the-waterfalls-of-the-sun · 11 months

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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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to-the-waterfalls-of-the-sun · 11 months

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“In the life of the painter, death may perhaps not be the most difficult thing. For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But, the sight of the stars always makes me dream.”

-Loving Vincent (2017)

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