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Lois

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Lois’s Quotes

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

tags: music

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“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
― May Sarton

tags: contentment, loneliness, solitude

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