DEAD ROSES

 

“One man gathers what another man spills…”

 

~ Robert Hunter ~

 

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LUNACY

 

“Dost thou not feel them slip, how cold! how cold!

The moon’s thin wavering finger-tips, along thy throat?”

 

~ Adelaide Crapsey ~

 

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HALCYON

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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CAMOUFLAGED

 

“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”

 

~ Margaret Atwood ~

 

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THE ANGEL OF DEATH

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

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LARMES DE BLEU

 

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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THE VIRGIN

 

“Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.”

 

~ Alphonse de Lamartine ~

 

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A GRAVITY OF LANGUAGE

 

Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

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LIKE APPLES

 

“Woman is at once apple and serpent.”

 

~ Heinrich Heine ~

 

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TALK TALK

 

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

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FLIGHTS OF FANCY

 

“Some might think that the creativity, imagination,

and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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RIEN

 

“No one here gets out alive.”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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MELANCHOLY

 

“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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SLICES

 

“I am not interested in a slice of life,

what I want is a slice of the imagination.”

 

~ Carlos Fuentes ~

 

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HER BRIGHT EMBRACE

 

“Landlords, like all other men,

love to reap where they never sowed.”

 

~ Karl Marx ~

 

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MEMORIES

 

“The days are short, the sun a spark

hung thin between the dark and dark.”

 

~ John Updike ~

 

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TÊTE-À-TÊTES

 

“L’automne est le silence avant l’hiver.”

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

 

~ French Proverb ~

 

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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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ONCE BROKEN

 

“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”

 

~ Madame de Stael ~

 

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TICK TOCK

 

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

 

~ Hector Berlioz

 

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