"Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist."

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I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.

— Mary Oliver