in those moments

 

“It’s one thing to fall in love.

It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you,

and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”

 

~ David Levithan ~

 

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afterthought

 

“For still I see that forethought spares

     afterthought and after-sorrow.”

 

~ Amelia Barr ~

 

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paradox three – excerpt

 

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

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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denudation

 

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

 

~ French proverb ~

 

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twilight

 

     “At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps

its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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pandora’s box

 

“In naked beauty more adorn’d, more lovely than Pandora.”

 

~ John Milton ~

 

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a drowning man

 

“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.”

 

~ Franz Kafka ~

 

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the long nightmare

 

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

 

~ Francisco de Goya ~

 

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tense

 

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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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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SLEEPLESS NIGHTS BETWEEN

 

“Knowledge is a deadly friend if no one sets the rules…”

 

~ Peter Sinfield ~

 

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A YEAR OF RAIN

 

“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”

 

~ John Steinbeck

 

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BY NIGHT ALL CATS ARE GRAY

“Women and cats will do as they please,

and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

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BRIDGE THIS SCHISM

 

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,

but delicious in the years of maturity.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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SING JIM

 

“Time it was and what a time it was…”

 

~ Paul Simon ~

 

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TENSE

 

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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AFTERTHOUGHT

 

“For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.”

 

~ Amelia Barr ~

 

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CHOCOLATE CREATURES

 

“Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless.”

 

~ Nadun Lokuliyanage ~

 

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DEWY DAWN IN DOVER

 

“Let him smell his way to Dover!”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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WHERE I BELONG

 

“The chief danger about Paris is

that it is such a strong stimulant.”

 

~ T.S. Eliot ~

 

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