Lydia Millet - Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (2005)

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It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

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Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity...

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Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.

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We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished...

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Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

Lydia Millet