“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
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“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
― The Hundred Secret Senses
― The Hundred Secret Senses
“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
― Gift from the Sea
― Gift from the Sea
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
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“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― V.
― V.
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