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Our world is so bursting-full of natural wonder that we are all experiencing a sensory overload. We are no longer perceiving all of Ú the details, just the ones that immediately interest us.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Full
Overload
Wonder
Bursting
Interest
Sensory
Natural
Experiencing
World
Immediately
Details
Ones
Longer
Perceiving

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Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.
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Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.
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If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
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Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential. Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.
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Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
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Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.
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The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
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Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.
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