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I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant loosing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

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Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.

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Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say. . . how we enjoy ourselves. . . Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death.

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In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own.

Blue, Dash, Fire, Opals, Swirl, Unique

In 1879 the Bengali scholar S. M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane…and like the interior of the half-blown water lily. ’ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly.

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I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other.

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Funny how we look for miracles in our lives when our life is one big miracle in itself.

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