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LEAVE ROOM FOR BEAUTIFUL INTERRUPTION; LIGHT, UNEXPECTED, ARRIVING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. FOR PERHAPS HERE IN THE DARKNESS, YOU WILL START TO SEE THE REALITY OF ALL THE WALLS YOU HAVE BUILT UP AROUND YOURSELF AND HOW THEY HAVE KEPT YOU ...more
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Rudyard Kipling
“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
Rudyard Kipling, Many Inventions

Sylvia Plath
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Rudyard Kipling
“And the first rude sketch that the world has seen
was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it art?”
Rudyard Kipling, Barrack Room Ballads & Departamental Ditties and Ballads

Rudyard Kipling
“If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.”
Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son

Rudyard Kipling
“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”
Rudyard Kipling

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