the load

 

“I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.”

 

~ Phillips Brooks ~

 

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at last i am free

 

“There is a time for departure

even when there’s no certain place to go.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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ces vieilles mains

 

“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.

It was my other hand.”

 

~ William S. Burroughs ~

 

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jesse / plain jane

 

“Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.”

 

~ Robert Fripp ~

 

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l’ êmoi passé

 

“The future is just a dream, the past but a memory.

There is only ever now and it never lasts…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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make art not war

 

“Art holds fast when all else is lost.”

 

~ German Proverb ~

 

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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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paradox

 

“What? do I love her,

that I desire to hear her speak again,

and feast upon her eyes.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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in her i had everything

 

“A thought that sometimes makes me hazy:

Am I – or are the others crazy?”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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the ministrony of poptimism

 

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

 

~ Aesop ~

 

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she shines

 

“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it, but you can feel it.”

 

~ Nicholas Sparks ~

 

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tree of life

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

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promise

 

“The sweet converse of an innocent mind.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

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brevity

 

“Four basic premises of writing, clarity, brevity, simplicity and humanity.”

 

~ William Zinsser ~

 

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taste alone

 

“I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue

than live and never touch you again.”

 

~ Michelle Hodkin ~

 

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the great silence

 

“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

 

~ Markus Zusak ~

 

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SPOONED

 

“The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.”

 

~ Matshona Dhliwayo ~

 

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SIREN

 

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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THE DECEMBER DREAM

 

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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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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