awakening

 

“Without change, something sleeps inside us,

and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

 

~ Frank Herbert ~

 

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paradox three – excerpt

 

“Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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last summer’s leaves

 

“Wild is the music of autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”

 

~ William Wordsworth ~

 

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a danger

 

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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la muse

 

“Fool,” said my muse to me. “Look in thy heart and write.”

 

~ Philip Sidney ~

 

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shadow and light

 

“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow.

The shadow is me.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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woman

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

 

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the fragment of a tear

 

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates

the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

 

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

 

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long hard cold dark lonely winter

 

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,

Thou art not so unkind, as Man’s Ingratitude…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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LEGACY

 

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

 

~ Nelson Henderson ~

 

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THE SUMMER THAT WASN’T

 

“It will not always be summer: build barns.”

 

~ Hesiod ~

 

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STARDUST

 

“I am one of billions.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on 

to be other things someday and I will be free.”

 

~ Laini Taylor ~

 

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FLESH AND BONE

 

“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth;

and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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DANCES I NEVER DANCED

 

“Opportunity is a bird that never perches.”

 

~ Claude Maxwell MacDonald ~

 

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GOIN’ DOWN SLOW

 

“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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A DANGER

 

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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THE DANCES I NEVER DANCED

 

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

 

~ James Richardson ~

 

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JUST A LITTLE LICK

 

“She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.”

 

~ Bill Haley ~

 

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OBLIVION

 

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

 

~ Thomas Nagel ~

 

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A LIFE IN SHADOWS

 

“A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

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