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I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.
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Ian Caldwell
#Art
#Book
#Reading
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Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.
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Ian Caldwell
#Lost Love
#Men
#Thinking
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Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.
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Ian Caldwell
#Sorrow
#Lasts
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The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see
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Ian Caldwell
#People
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Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.
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Ian Caldwell
#Lonely
#Distance
#Years
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Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.
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Ian Caldwell
#Cost
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The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.
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Ian Caldwell
#Strong
#Smart
#Weak
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The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.
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Ian Caldwell
#Home
#Adventure
#Waiting
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...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.
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Ian Caldwell
#Wall
#Saws
#Standing
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...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.
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Ian Caldwell
#Good Friend
#Doe
#Way
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A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.
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Ian Caldwell
#Father
#Son
#Love Is
