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“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
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“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
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“For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
― T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
― T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― Transit of Venus
― Transit of Venus
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