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chris’s Quotes

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

tags: possibility, progress, work

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“The life of this world is wind
Windblown we come, and windblown we go away.
All that we look on is windfall.
All we remember is wind.”
― Charles Wright, The Southern Cross

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“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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“In this place of light: he dares to live
Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings
Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.”
― Theodore Roethke

tags: the-dying-man

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“My mind was empty as a ballroom and I was not compelled to dance.”
― Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry: Poems

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