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As certain as weather coming from the west, the things people know for sure will change. There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Having had over the last few months the occasion almost daily to sit in silence for a few brief moments, I came to describe the experience as the feeling of silence carving away at my interiority like a sculptor chipping away at stone, as if silence were stripping me of all that was not essential.
The Thing That Is Silence
The Convivial Society
How much his mother’s son he was, she said to herself: he had inherited her gift for loading the weight of his self-sacrifices onto others.
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
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