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“Writing lets you be, say, and do anything. It's sugar for your ego and wings for your ideas.”
― Goslyn County
― Goslyn County
“To the outside observer, deep thinking may appear methodically compulsive, but it is much more the product of a person’s faith in himself and his emotional inclinations than the result of any objective discipline. Hence James’ descriptive phrase: “the sentiment of rationality.”
― To Thine Own Self Be True: The Relationship Between Spiritual Values and Emotional Health
― To Thine Own Self Be True: The Relationship Between Spiritual Values and Emotional Health
“Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar.…”
― The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
― The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
“Wings can only fly
as long as the bird flies
Soul blackens when you
put on vestment of lies
White candle wax cries
for ignitable wick
Jealous people burn
to make your heart feel sick”
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as long as the bird flies
Soul blackens when you
put on vestment of lies
White candle wax cries
for ignitable wick
Jealous people burn
to make your heart feel sick”
―
“The wet sidewalks gleam with a broad sheet of red light. The raindrops glitter as if the sky were pouring down rubies. The spouts gush with fire. Methinks the scene is an emblem of the deceptive glare which mortals throw around their footsteps in the moral world, thus bedazzling themselves till they forget the impenetrable obscurity that hems them in, and that can be dispelled only by radiance from above.”
― The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
― The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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