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    Heraclitus
    “The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.”
    ― Heraclitus
    tags: creativity, process
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Books. Cats. Life is good.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
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    T.S. Eliot
    “The endless cycle of idea and action,
    Endless invention, endless experiment,
    Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
    Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
    Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
    All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
    All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
    But nearness to death no nearer to God.
    Where is the Life we have lost in living?
    Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
    Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
    The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
    Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
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    T.S. Eliot
    “If time and space, as sages say,
    Are things which cannot be,
    The sun which does not feel decay
    No greater is than we.
    So why, Love, should we ever pray
    To live a century?
    The butterfly that lives a day
    Has lived eternity.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: change, eternity
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  • #6
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Robert Frost
    “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
    And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: humor, poetry, religion
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: death, sleep
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  • #9
    Michael Faudet
    “Good night - may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry when you awake.”
    ― Michael Faudet
    tags: night, sleep
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    Thomas Harris
    “God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
    tags: cry, crying, cycle, darkness, doom, doomed, god, god-s-creation, hannibal, hell, horror, humanity, insanity, mental-illness, murder, never-ending, prison, psychopath, punishment, serial-killer, serial-killers, sleep, the-silence-of-the-lambs
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my lids and all is born again.
    (I think I made you up inside my head.)”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
    tags: life
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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  • #14
    “There is freedom waiting for you,
    On the breezes of the sky,
    And you ask "What if I fall?"
    Oh but my darling,
    What if you fly?”
    ― Erin Hanson
    tags: freedom, inspiration, poetry
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  • #15
    Dante Alighieri
    “I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: acceptance, contentment, raining
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  • #17
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Aeschylus
    “For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”
    ― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
    tags: better, die, pain, suffer
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  • #21
    Charles Bukowski
    “the gods seldom
    give
    but so quickly
    take.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
    tags: bukowski, christianity, death, god, gods, life, love, poem, poetry, religion
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    Madeline Miller
    “But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, deities, destruction, greek-mythology, immortality, mythology
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  • #23
    Lemony Snicket
    “The world is quiet here.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
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    Charles Bukowski
    “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Richard Siken
    “Oh we’re a mess, poor humans, poor flesh—hybrids of angels and animals, dolls with diamonds stuffed inside them. We’ve been to the moon and we’re still fighting over Jerusalem.”
    ― Richard Siken
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    Richard Siken
    “I kept my mind on the moon.”
    ― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes
    tags: moon
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    Richard Siken
    “This is the place, you say to yourself, where everything
    starts to begin”
    ― Richard Siken, Crush
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    Richard Siken
    “You want a better story. Who wouldn’t?”
    ― Richard Siken, Crush
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  • #29
    Richard Siken
    “Leave the lights on. Keep talking. I'll
    keep walking toward the sound of your voice.”
    ― Richard Siken, Crush
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    Richard Siken
    “Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out the hammer and start knocking in the wooden pegs that affix the meaning to the landscape, the inner life to the body, the names to the things. I float too much to wander, like you, in the real world. I envy it but that’s the dealio—you’re a train and I’m a trainstation and when I try to guess your trajectory I end up telling my own story.”
    ― Richard Siken
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