in those moments

 

“It’s one thing to fall in love.

It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you,

and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”

 

~ David Levithan ~

 

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a stick figure scrawl

 

 

 

“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”

 

~ Paul Cezanne ~

 

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plucked

 

“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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bisous

 

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

 

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life’s blood

 

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

 

~ Alison Prince ~

 

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mosaic

 

“We are mosaics – pieces of light, love, history,

stars glued together with magic and music and words.”

 

~ Anita Krishan ~

 

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BEAUTIFUL BITCH

 

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

 

~ Dion Boucicault ~

 

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A STICK FIGURE SCRAWL

 

“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”

 

~ Paul Cezanne ~

 

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ELECTRIC ECLECTIC

 

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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NO BOUNDARIES

 

“The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.”

 

~ Malcolm De Chazal ~

 

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THE SILENCE OF THE STONES

 

“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry,

whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.” 

 

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ~

 

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FLOWER CHILD

 

“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon,

who could not be happy?”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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UNWRAPS THE COBWEBS

 

“Only the united beat of sex and the heart can create ecstasy.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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THE NIGHTS I SPENT

 

“a pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

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THE CRYSTAL BALL

 

“Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.”

 

~ Roger von Oech ~

 

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MOSAIC

 

“…life is a deep dark meaningful mystery,

an uncertain road filled with fantasy and feeling…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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LUNE DE LA MORT

 

“Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.”

 

~ William Penn ~

 

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DON’T DREAM ALONE

 

“Reality, n. The dream of a mad philosopher.”

 

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

 

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TENDER TINDER

 

“And many such good inventions are there,

that they are like woman’s breasts:

useful at the same time, and pleasant.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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ÉQUILIBRE

 

“Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.”

 

~ Charles Pierre Baudelaire ~

 

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