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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. —OSCAR WILDE, 1888
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Timothy Leary
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
Timothy Leary

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“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Joyce Carol Oates
“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

C.S. Lewis
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis

W.H. Auden
The More Loving One

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.”
W.H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957

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