

“When the systems of profit, fame, and national pride degrade bicycle or soccer competitions to a tainted ritual, it becomes a depiction of corruption rather than trust, integrity, and honest endeavor. ( “The dirty bike")”
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“Beauty promises recognition, connection, and loftiness. It invites us to soar and transcend. Beauty lends magnitude to our lives, but we feel dislocated if we miss sense and substance. Its absence is like a fall from grace. Beauty is one of the last refuges against emptiness. Without it, we become void drifters in a barren world. (“Absence of Beauty is like Hell“ )”
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“When only silence remains, we stand suspended between remembrance and presence in a fragile space between being grounded in the past and making sense of the present. ("Only silence remained")”
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“Silence is a space of “becoming,” a span between commotion and interior stillness, a canvas that reveals the outlines of our memories and our inner selves. ("Only silence remained")”
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Celine’s 2024 Year in Books
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