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The art of the romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the palace of absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.
-Umberto Eco
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The Art Of The Romance, Though Warning

Umberto Eco
The art of the romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the palace of absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.
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It's dark because you are trying too hard. lightly child, lightly. learn to do everything lightly. yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. so throw away your baggage and go forward. there are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. that's why you must walk so lightly. lightly my darling.
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But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. you were always going to breathe. you were always going to say yes.
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When god gives you a door, if you want access, you go through that door. people didn't like jesus. oh, they had all kind of reasons to hate him but jesus said, "i am the door. any man who enters must come by me. if you don't come by me," he said, "you're a thief and a robber." well, if omarosa manigault is the door to donald trump, well i kind of like that door. that's a pretty door. that's an intelligent door. that's a spiritually rooted door.
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