laughs in your face

 

“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

 

~ Jim Morrison

 

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like the moon

 

“The eye is always caught by light,

but shadows have more to say.”

 

~ Gregory Maguire ~

 

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unreality

 

“I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing

     is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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sitting be i here

 

“That’s what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe

about the good old days when we wished we were dead.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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draws the bow

 

“After silence, that which comes nearest

     to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

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monkey shines

 

“The poet like an acrobat climbs on rime

to a high wire of his own making.”

 

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~

 

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sentiments cachés

 

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses,

just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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a series of successive changes

 

“Nothing in the world is permanent,

and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last,

but surely we’re still more foolish

not to take delight in it while we have it.

 

~ W. Somerset Maugham ~

 

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(“I am only a series of successive changes.”)

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the running man

 

“All I want in this life are three…a moonlit beach

on the starlit sea, a breath of opium, and thee.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

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life is beautiful

 

“Life is beautiful because it doesn’t last.”

 

~ Brit Marling ~

 

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happy ending

 

“Words of snow, which fell last year.”

 

~ German Proverb ~

 

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warmth

 

“As the nights get colder, the hugs get warmer.”

 

~ Anthony T. Hincks ~

 

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now

 

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”

“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

 

~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~

 

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all our being ends

 

“At the moment when we end, all our being ends with us.”

 

~ Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau ~

 

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flou

 

“Don’t lose who you are in the blur of the stars.

Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing.”

 

~ Jessie J. ~

 

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trick of the tongue

 

“The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.”

 

~ Algernon Charles Swinburne ~

 

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a long uncertain ride

 

“A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke,

only man can prevent.”

 

~ Elie Wiesel ~

 

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nascent

 

 

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,

but what we are unable to say.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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circle game

 

“Humanity is the refuse of spirit.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

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the moon hung fat and high

 

“Au clair de la lune prête moi ta plume pour écrire un mot…”

“In the moonlight lend me your pen to write a word…”

 

~ French Folk Song “Au Clair de la Lune” ~

 

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