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In Search of Enchantment
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The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous.
~ James Clavell
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
~ Susan Sontag
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The fairy tales we grew up with — the ones that painted life as a series of sweeping triumphs, where love conquers all and happiness is a destination — crumble under the weight of lived experience.
Love, you discover, is not the eternal flame you once believed it to be; it flickers and dims, vulnerable to the winds of circumstance, the tides of misunderstanding, and the unrelenting march of time…
Happiness, too, takes on a different hue. It’s no longer the radiant, unbroken light we were taught to pursue but a fleeting glimmer that dances unpredictably through our lives. It resides in small, unexpected flashes: the warmth of a laugh, the stillness of a sunset, the brief peace of a quiet moment…
~ From “Remember “
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For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind…
