And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens …

Zadie Smith
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And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared. ✨ On Beauty. Book by Zadie Smith, 2005.
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And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared. ✨ On Beauty. Book by Zadie Smith, 2005.

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