I said to my father that I did not believe you could die of a laugh and he looked over at me and said, “Poor daughter, you can die of nearly anything.”
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Maybe it was okay to have some outsized faith in yourself.
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A special proof of scientific as distinguished from aesthetic interest is to care for the hidden and insignificant.
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Rufus’s compass-like eyes were lolling and loose, barely able to focus
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David describes the sensation of speaking the names out loud, those Latin declarations of victory, mastery.
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Even the dullest slug or dandelion could offer spiritual and moral guidance to those humans curious enough to look.
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t was the work of deciphering God’s plan, the meaning of life, and possibly even the path to building a better society.
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Refuge. It smelled like cinnamon and its walls were made of bad puns and cheap rhymes, piling higher and higher against the chill of the world.
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Happiness comes from doing, helping, working, loving, fighting, conquering
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There is no hope for you unless this bit of sod under your feet is the sweetest to you in this world—in any world