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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike

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If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance. – Andrea Boydston

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Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. – Thích Nhất Hạnh

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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? – Mary Oliver

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In this very breath that we now take lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us. – Peter Matthiessen

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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. – Marcus Aurelius

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