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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full blood wolf moon

 

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow.

The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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rhymes wrung

 

“The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

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denudation

 

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

 

~ French proverb ~

 

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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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alexa

 

“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.”

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

 

~ Arthur C. Clarke ~

 

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rum sweet nipples

 

“I have put my talent into writing,

my genius I have saved for living.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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all that nothing

 

 

“All that nothing causes all that pain…”

 

~ Chris Smither ~

 

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page three

 

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

 

~ James Thurber ~

 

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it’s all done with mirrors

 

“The world is the mirror of myself dying.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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starsailor strange

 

“Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.”

 

~ Guy de Maupassant ~

 

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a personal observation

 

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

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rainbows raining down

 

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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a study of hands

 

“My life is light, waiting for the death wind,

Like a feather on the back of my hand.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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time of in between

 

“the sweet small clumsy feet of april came

into the ragged meadow of my soul.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

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phases

 

“I’m just going through a phase right now.

Everybody goes through phases and all, don’t they?”

 

~ J.D. Salinger ~

 

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CRÉER C’EST SE SOUVENIR

 

“Créer c’est se souvenir…”

“To create is to remember…”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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MOONCHILD

 

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

 

~ A.J. Lawless ~

 

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SEVEN DEADLY SINS

 

“All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes

but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth,

poetry might never have been born.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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IN THE KEY OF COME HITHER…

 

“Our work is not to become unique. We are unique.

Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure

and to allow the inner whisper that says

“come hither” to be reason enough to go.”

 

~ Vironika Tugaleva ~

 

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