grow wings

 

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

 

~ Frida Kahlo ~

 

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the sanctuary of their blindness

 

“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,

but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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spice

 

“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”

 

~ Joan Aiken ~

 

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exit strategy

 

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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en vin est vérité

 

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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a simple truth

 

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.

What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration

has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.

There is no matter.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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hopes and dreams

 

“The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable.

The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.”

 

~ Ajahn Sumedho ~

 

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through the looking glass

 

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as

six impossible things before breakfast.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

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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 doubt remains

 

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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the new little corporal

 

“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

And the tigers are getting hungry.”

 

~ Winston Churchill ~

 

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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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les mensonges

 

“Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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half the truth

 

“Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.”

 

~ Martin H. Fischer ~

 

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PHASES AND SHADOWS

 

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

 

~ John Greaves ~

 

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LIKE MUSHROOMS

 

“There are poisons that blind you,

and poisons that open your eyes.”

 

~ August Strindberg ~

 

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HALCYON

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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EN VIN EST VÉRITÉ

 

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

 

~Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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PRIVATE HELL

 

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

 

~ Seneca ~

 

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CAGES

 

“The eyes of others our prisons;

their thoughts our cages.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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