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“Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o’clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― The Hollow Men
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o’clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― The Hollow Men
“Ik wist niets te zeggen, de zinnen stapelden zich op achter mijn tanden en ik kraamde alleen maar onzin uit. Of ik zweeg, zweeg in alle talen en luisterde of ik in de stilte aan haar kant geluiden of stemmen op de achtergrond kon opvangen die konden verklaren waarom ze ineens zo kort aangebonden was.”
― Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven
― Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven
“you are the knife i turn inside myself; that is love, that, my dear, is love”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Every belief will be outgrown, in time. The first lesson of the universe is to never reason from only a single instance. Unless you only have one instance. In which case: find another.”
― Bewilderment
― Bewilderment
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