this excrement unction

 

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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ombres sur mon mur

 

“Like a shadow, I am and I am not.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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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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élan vital

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

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DARK COME THE DAYS

 

“Night’s black Mantle covers all alike.”

 

~ Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas ~

 

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THE TENEBROSITY OF DREAM

 

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

 

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

 

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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 SKIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS

 

“Close your eyes and see the beauty.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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IN THE KEY OF COME HITHER…

 

“Our work is not to become unique. We are unique.

Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure

and to allow the inner whisper that says

“come hither” to be reason enough to go.”

 

~ Vironika Tugaleva ~

 

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L’AMOUR EST MORT

 

“Now you’re just a stranger, with all my secrets.”

 

~ Charles Dickens ~

 

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THE SUMMER OF DISCONTENT

 

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out

than it would have been if it had never shone.”

 

~ John Steinbeck ~

 

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COBWEBS

 

“Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind…”

 

~ Graham Nash ~

 

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SKY

 

“I never get tired of the blue sky.”

 

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

 

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AN APRIL NIGHT

 

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

 

~ Anais Nin ~

 

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FOR SOME DAMN REASON

 

“I wish for a bright day, damn why I don’t wish for a bright life!”

 

~ Irfa Rahat ~

 

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THIS EXCREMENT UNCTION

 

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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COFFEE CORNER

 

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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GREENWORDS

 

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

 

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

 

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OCTOBER OCTAVES

 

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”

 

~ Norman Maclean ~

 

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