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Quote by Madame de Stael

“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love”

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Madame de Stael, born on April 22, 1766, was a prominent French writer and philosopher. She was a key figure in the Enlightenment and Romanticism movements, known for her influential essays and novels. Her works often delved into themes of individualism, freedom, and the role of women in society. She passed away on July 14, 1817. more

“What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies the reality of death and the reality that we are surrounded by and outnumbered by the dead. Here, is a very playful way of acknowledging that and acknowledging that and that always, whenever we play, whenever we live, we are living in both literal and metaphorical ways on the memory and bones of the dead.”

World Way Play Reality Memories Walking Deny Bones Manifest Sculpture Literal Metaphorical Reality Of Death

Author:John Green

“Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself.”

Feels Hands Felt Gone Tree Skins Prepared Delight Woods Climbing Ladders Texture Carpenter Frodo

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.”

Trying Guilty Convince

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.”

Different Talking Flower Fairy Whispering Petals Daffodil Different Families