🧩 Philosophy 1d ago · Maria Popova

Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers

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“It’s a mercy that time runs in one direction only, that we see the past but darkly and the future not at all.”

“The past only comes back when the present runs so smoothly that it is like the sliding surface of a deep river,” Virginia Woolf wrote some years before she filled her coat-pockets with stones, waded into the River Ouse near her house, and, unwilling to endure what she had barely survived in the past, slid beneath the smooth surface of life.
One midsummer morning seven dec

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