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H. L. Dawson

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“The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

tags: escape, flee, flight, haruki-murakami, imagination, imagine, japan, japanese, murakami, reality, the-wind-up-bird-chronicle

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“In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.”
― Izumi Shikibu, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

tags: inspirational, love

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“Even if I now saw you
only once,
I would long for you
through worlds,
worlds.”
― Izumi Shikibu, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

tags: longing, love, rejection

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“Separation

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
― W.S. Merwin

tags: influence, loneliness, loss, poetry

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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