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Lyra's Kitchen: A Culinary Chronicle of Simmering Secrets

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“Seeing myself from the outside (as I almost always do), I'm unfit for action, flustered when I have to take a step or make a move, tongue-tied when I have to talk to someone, lacking the inner lucidity needed to enjoy things that require mental effort, and without the physical stamina to entertain myself through some merely mechanical labour. It's only natural that I'm this way. A dreamer is expected to be this way. All reality disconcerts me.”

“Life's more easier when it's just a blur with no details to confuse who, what or where I was so when the end comes, the full regret will obscure. Reality softens, but clarity is the price we pay. When life is just a blur, we trade depth for simplicity, but at what cost? In a life without details, we escape confusion but also miss out on the truth, but the loss of detail can blur our sense of purpose too. When life is a blur, we may evade regret, but we also evade the meaning behind our choices.”

“Utilitarian economists, skeletons of schoolmasters, Commissioners of Fact, genteel and used-up infidels, gabblers of many little dog’s-eared creeds, the poor you will have always with you. Cultivate in them, while there is yet time, the utmost graces of the fancies and affections, to adorn their lives so much in need of ornament; or, in the day of your triumph, when romance is utterly driven out of their souls, and they and a bare existence stand face to face, Reality will take a wolfish turn, and make an end of you.”