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January 15, 2025

Always at the commencement of work that first innocence must be re-achieved, you must return to that unsophisticated spot where the angel discovered you when he brought you the first binding message… If the angel deigns to come it will be because you have convinced him, not with tears, but with your humble resolve, to be always beginning, to be a beginner.

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Thought:

“With slow, reluctant feet, and weary eyes,
And eye-lids heavy with the coming sleep,
With small breasts lifted up in stress of sighs,
She passed, as shadows pass, among the sheep;
While the earth dreamed, and only I was ware
Of that faint fragrance blown from her soft hair.”

Frederic Manning | “Korè”

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