The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect.
Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.
The Guermantes Way
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Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.
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