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“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

tags: children, fairies, fantasy, loss-of-innocence, poetry, sorrow

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“He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

tags: lily-briscoe, mr-carmichael

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“Human beings are like the shorelines of continents. The closer you look, the more detail you see, basically into infinity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

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“We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

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“Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

tags: closing-line, life, lions, perseverance, sea

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