musique et danse

 

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane

by those who could not hear the music.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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lemniscate

 

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

 

~ Neale Donald Walsch ~

 

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coda

 

“He was inside the nightmare.”

 

~ Patrick Ness ~

 

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in her i had everything

 

“A thought that sometimes makes me hazy:

Am I – or are the others crazy?”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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crimson thorned

 

“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”

 

~ Leigh Bardugo ~

 

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the doubt remains

 

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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wormholes

 

“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience

that primordial shamanism is based on

is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

 

~ Terence McKenna ~

 

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slow burning ember

 

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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too far

 

“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

 

~ Dylan Thomas ~

 

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hoops

 

“There is a hidden power in details.”

 

~ Sabeesh Yemmay ~

 

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sparkle

 

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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like mushrooms

 

“There are poisons that blind you,

and poisons that open your eyes.”

 

~ August Strindberg ~

 

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wee

 

“It takes a long time to become young.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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siren

 

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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la vie

 

“We all have two lives. The second one starts

when we realize we only have one.”

 

~ Tom Hiddleston ~

 

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touch

 

“Find someone who will tremble for your touch,

someone whose fingers are a poem.”

 

~ Janet Fitch ~

 

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a colour of dust

 

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,

sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”

 

~ Omar Khayyam ~

 

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thistles and thorns

 

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;

and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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i’ll wait

 

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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immediate curtain

 

“Life is a cosmic joke.”

 

~ Robert Wyatt ~

 

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