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when life is just too big and too beautiful and too full of every.thing that all you can do is breathe and weep for wonder.

this is the way i feel things: kind of like the immensity will make my skin shatter if things get much more immense. mahler's 'resurrection' symphony. rothko's tryptich. beethoven's final three sonatas for piano and late string quartets. mountains and caves and trees. spiders' webs. constellations. neruda's sonnets. all good things declare the world, with all its ugliness, still creates and revels in beauty, right?