Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
A. S. ByattFor my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".
A. S. ByattPain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
A. S. ByattThe reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.
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