There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken. (Jonathan Franzen)

There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.

Jonathan Franzen

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