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“O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour
to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my
world.”
― The Waves
to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my
world.”
― The Waves
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
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“Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers.”
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we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers.”
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“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live”
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