“There is no future, there is no past, I live this moment as my last”
― Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History
― Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History
“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one's own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that's why we're so anxious to lose them...”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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