The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously a…

Diane Ackerman
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The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day. ✨ Diane Ackerman (2011). A Natural History of the Senses, p.309, Vintage
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The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day. ✨ Diane Ackerman (2011). A Natural History of the Senses, p.309, Vintage

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