like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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never enough time

 

“There is not enough time for anything, ever.”

 

~ Hilton Als ~

 

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becoming one

 

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

A dream you dream together is reality.”

 

~ Yoko Ono ~

 

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dix mots

 

“Lying is the most fun a woman can have

without taking her clothes off.”

 

~ Natalie Portman ~

 

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peace

 

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

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bagages

 

“Never be a prisoner of your past,

it was just a lesson, not a life sentence…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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the absurdity of it all

 

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode

in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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jours étranges

 

“The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled

to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.”

 

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

 

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ear worms

 

“Hums aren’t things which you get; they get you.”

 

~ Winnie the Pooh ~

 

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draws the bow

 

“After silence, that which comes nearest

     to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

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sentiments cachés

 

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses,

just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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libére ton esprit

 

“There is nothing more powerful and nothing more

dangerously beautiful than a free mind.”

 

~ Bryant McGill ~

 

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melancholie

 

“Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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the girl with a candle

 

“Look at how a single candle can

both defy and define the darkness.”

 

~ Anne Frank ~

 

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warmth

 

“As the nights get colder, the hugs get warmer.”

 

~ Anthony T. Hincks ~

 

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all this paradise

 

“Think of what a paradise this world would be

if men were kind and wise.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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a danger

 

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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two fragments

 

“Of the seven deadly sins,

lust is definitely the pick of the litter.”

 

~ Tom Robbins ~

 

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le peintre

 

“I do not seek. I find.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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rainbows

 

“Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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