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“I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.”
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I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.”
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“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”
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“For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.”
― Pierre Or The Ambiguities
― Pierre Or The Ambiguities
“Sleep heavily and know that I am here with you now. The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles in as the gentle present. This now, this us? We can cope with that. We can do this together. You and I, drowsily, but comfortably.”
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“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.”
― Drowning Instinct
― Drowning Instinct
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