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And once in a while I can risk it. And every now and then I don't fix it. There's something charming in being broken. It's so disarming and unspoken.
"She put her hands under the leaves and began to push and pull them aside. Thick as the ivy hung, it was nearly all a loose and swinging curtain, though some had swept over wood and iron. Mary's heart began to thump and her hands to shake a little in her delight and excitement. The robin kept singing and twittering away and tilting his head on one side, as if he were as excited as she was. What was this under her hands which was square and made of iron and which her fingers found a hole in? It was the lock of the door which had been closed ten years and she put her hand in her pocket, drew out the key and found it fitted the key hole. She put the key in and turned it. It took two hands to do it, but it did turn. And then she took a long breath and looked behind her up the long walk to see if anyone was coming. No one was coming. No one ever did come it seemed, and she took another long breath, because she could not help it, and she held back the swinging curtain of ivy and pushed back the door which opened slowly-slowly. Then she slipped through it, and shut it behind her, and stood with her back against it, looking about her and breathing quite fast with excitement, and wonder, and delight. She was standing inside the secret garden."
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
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“Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture. Everything is blooming. Everything is flying. Everything is screaming, choking on its screams. Laughter. Running. Let-down hair. That is all there is to life.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live" -C.Bukowski
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being." -Oscar Wilde
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"When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares are still walking. When we hold each other, we feel -- not safe, but better. 'It's all right,' we whisper. 'I'm here. I love you.' And we lie, 'I'll never leave you.' For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad. When we hold each other." ~ Neil Gaiman
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"I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do -- by what we deny ourselves, what we resist and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create and who we include." ~ Joanne Harris, "Chocolat"
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"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The first cup moistens my lips and throat. The second cup breaks my loneliness. The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs. The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration - all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores. At the fifth cup I am purified. The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup - ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither. ~Lu Tung, "Tea-Drinking"
“Every rose has its thorn:- you never find a woman without pins and needles" -Douglas Jerrold quotes
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"I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin." - Farewell, My Lovely
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"It's like a fucking drug deal I'm sitting here waiting I'm calling you back and you won't call me back and it's fucked up, but at the same time it just made me want you even worse."
"The trouble with censors is they worry if a girl has a cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any" -Marylin Monroe
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"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness" -Dali Lama
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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn..." - Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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"You are chained To my dreams and I am the slave." -Alicia Ghiragossian
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“Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” — Roald Dahl
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"He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder." -Tad Williams
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"I am 2 women, one wants to have Joy,adventure,complete freedom, the other wants the safety of the confines of responsiblity" -Unknown
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"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. " -Sylvia Plath
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"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." - Camus
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“Do you know – the only life I am sure of is the life of the Imagination.” A.S. Byatt
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"Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears. Pass it on." - Rev. Henry Burton
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"We loved with a love that was more than love". -Edgar Allen Poe
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"Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head." ~Mark Twain"
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"There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters." -neil gaiman
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