“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from
that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its
yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on
earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when
it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes
too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling
all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted
as many as you could.”—American novelist-poet Louise Erdrich,
The Painted Drum (2005)(This photo of Louise Erdrich was taken in Rome on July 5, 2015 by Alessio Jacona.)
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