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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until the curtians close

 

“Some men share brotherly love – that of Cain and Abel.”

 

~ Andrzej Majewski ~

 

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with a fork

 

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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penance

 

“The man hath penance done, and penance more will do.”

 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

 

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for all our lives

 

“…she pulled apart roses to appreciate the thorns……”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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dans un brouillard

 

“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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look back in anger

 

“There is nothing so cruel in this world

as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

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blind eye

 

 

“To fear death is to misunderstand life.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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nymphonettes

 

“I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.”

 

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~

 

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it’s all done with mirrors

 

“The world is the mirror of myself dying.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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a very nice pair

 

“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.”

 

~ Mark Antony ~

 

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des couleurs dans ma vie

 

“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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coeur d’arlequin

 

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

 

~ Blaise Pascal ~

 

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