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I used to think maybe it wasn't so important, but now I think it is. It really affects my mood. In the bedroom for example, I recently purchased a new duvet cover in some really luscious red fabric with burgundy embroidery, and it makes my bed so much more sensual. Blank walls put me off too. It really is in the details, curtains and ties, candles, flowers...it makes a difference to how happy I am in my house. I can't spend much but slowly I'm turning it into a little haven.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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