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

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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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