the ambience that was she

 

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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the reluctant prince

 

“Sleeping Beauty, who said to Prince Charming,

are you sure all we did was kiss?”

 

~ Red Buttons ~

 

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and yet

 

“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”

 

~ Paulo Coelho ~

 

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the story of our lives

 

“You see things and you say, ‘Why?’

But I dream things and I say, ‘Why not?’ ”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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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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ombres et lumière

 

“Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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silybum

 

“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers

is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.”

 

~ Thomas Moore ~

 

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plucked

 

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

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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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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advice for troubled times

 

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that

   within me there lay an invincible summer.”

 

~ Albert Camus ~

 

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too tired to try

 

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

   Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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for some damn reason

 

“It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another;

it’s one damn thing over and over.”

 

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

 

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the voice of delusion

 

“You know that voice you hear inside your head when you think that

God or Jesus is talking personally to you? Well it’s the same voice

that people hear when they think that aliens are contacting them

     or that the Devil is telling them to do something. It is the voice of delusion…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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each day frowned

 

“The hottest love has the coldest end.”

 

~ Socrates ~

 

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