#The Palace of Illusions

We cannot force ourselves to love — or to withhold it. At best, we can curb our actions. The heart itself is beyond

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I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable – but I always was so, only I never knew it!

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For isn’t that what our homes are ultimately, our fantasies made corporeal, our secret selves exposed? The converse is

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Time is the great eraser, both of sorrow and of joy.

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I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps.

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There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn’t as important as one had always assumed.

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