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“The moving light, rejoicing in its strength,
Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way,
In golden glory, like some strange new sun...”
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Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way,
In golden glory, like some strange new sun...”
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“Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean-
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”
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birthing is hard
and dying is mean-
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”
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“The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.”
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“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
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