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“To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Life's Complex Journey

“But it's the simple and the good that are meant to suffer in this world—ain't it, though!”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Beauty is frightening," they will tell you —

Lazily you will arrange

A Spanish shawl on your shoulders,

A red rose in your hair.


"Beauty is simple," they will tell you —

Clumsily with a motley shawl

You will cover a child up,

A red rose on the floor.


But, distractedly heeding

All the words sounding around you,

Sadly lost in thought

You will say about yourself:


'I am neither frightening nor simple;

I am not so frightening, that I would simply

Kill; I am not so simple

That I do not know how frightening life is.'

("For Anna Akhmatova")”
― Alexander Blok, Silver Age of Russian Culture