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“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: analogy, anew, art, author, bath, change, clothes, creative-arts, emerge, fear, immerse, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, life, metamorphosis, metaphor, novelist, poem, poesia, poetess, poetry, poetry-quotes, quote, read, reading, reading-quotes, soak, touch, transcend, transcendence, transform, undress, water, wet, write, writing

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“There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

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“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: clever, desperation, hope, inspiration, misattributed, tenacity

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“I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: mythology, ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane

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“Somebody" said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: death, lessons, loneliness, love, survival

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