Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.
Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.
Life is what it makes you.
Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.
I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.