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chris’s Quotes

“The rays which stream through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the shutter is wholly removed.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

tags: beauty, nature, transience

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“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”
― Alasdair Gray

tags: possibility, progress, work

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“Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you.”
― Robert F. Young, The Dandelion Girl

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“Only poetry isn't shit.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: poetry

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