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Ingots
As if every cake weren’t worth its weight in gold. The story about financiers goes something like this: A French boulanger named Lasne noted that the businessmen who frequented his shop, which was...
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Mercurial
“I have been ten days in this temple and my heart is restless. The scarlet thread of lust at my feet has reached up long. If someday you come looking for me, I will be in a shop that sells fine...
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Maccha
Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it’s worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person’s face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street...
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Doubtful
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” –Karim Seddiki You know what kills macarons? No, you don’t. No one does, because these stupid fucking cookies have minds of their own. For me, macs go...
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Zap!
Un éclair… puis la nuit! — Fugitive beauté Dont le regard m’a fait soudainement renaître, Ne te verrai-je plus que dans l’éternité? Ailleurs, bien loin d’ici! trop tard! jamais peut-être! Car j’ignore...
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Une Souche de Noël
Mais non, mes chéris, pas une bûche! Vraiment une souche! That’s right, we just upended the Yule log—literally. Took the classic bûche de Noël and made it into a souche de Noël. A stump! A stump de...
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Crunchy
“We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it....
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Fit For A Queen
Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind, All unseen can passage find; That the lover, sick to death, Wish’d himself...
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Troisième
“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both...
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Stardust
“If you came to me with a face I have not seen, with a name I have never heard, I would still know you. Even if centuries separated us, I would still feel you. Somewhere between the sand and the...
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Almond Joyous
“Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly, Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy?” —From...
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Elegant Disorder
The second law of thermodynamics… states that the amount of disorder in the universe will always increase. “If we see alien science someday, they will have the equivalent equation,” Tufte said....
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A Covey of Cookies
“Today, me will live in the moment unless it’s unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.” —Cookie Monster For me, baking Christmas cookies for all my loved ones is a necessity as much as a...
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Quatrième
“Recognizing that people’s reactions don’t belong to you is the only sane way to create. If people enjoy what you’ve created, terrific. If people ignore what you’ve created, too bad. If people...
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Sajeonogi
Sajeonogi, or, knocked down four times, rising up five. La Pêche Fraîche, or, disappearing four times, reappearing five. Happy September! I hope you all have enjoyed a glorious summer and have had a...
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Comfort and Joy
“For it is in giving that we receive.” Prayer of Saint Francis Merry Christmas Eve and a very happy first night of Hanukkah! I have not yet wrapped my gifts nor done all the productive things I needed...
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La Vie En Rose
When you kiss me heaven sighs And though I close my eyes I see la vie en rose When you press me to your heart I’m in a world apart A world where roses bloom And when you speak, angels sing from above...
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Blooming
“You aren’t a flower, you’re every blossom in the wood blooming at once. You are a tidal wave. You’re a stampede. You are overwhelming.” ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom Words are not my strong suit...
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XXII
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” —Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Yesterday, my parents sent me the dreamiest...
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Golden
I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand — How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep — while I weep! O God!...
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