"When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor."

John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant

Metaphor, Sense, Talk

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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is."

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"It was his self-esteem she had sought to destroy, knowing that a man who surrenders his value is at the mercy of anyone's will; it was his moral purity she had struggled to breach, it was his confident rectitude she had wanted to shatter by means of the poison of guilt-as if, were he to collapse, his depravity would give her a right to hers."

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"If the pocket goes dry but the mind is fertile, awake and plant something noble in the mind and you shall surely reap something noble in the end, no matter what!"

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"Hariri says, in his Maqamat: 'Safety is on the river's BANK."

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Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity."

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"Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Let us play hide and seek in a mountain which is like a women's back."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Metaphor, Nature, Playfulness, Symbolism

"A bull that allows a he goat to deter it from moving forward is nothing but a mere he goat."

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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

"If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is."

"If the pocket goes dry but the mind is fertile, awake and plant something noble in the mind and you shall surely reap something noble in the end, no matter what!"

"Hariri says, in his Maqamat: 'Safety is on the river's BANK."

"Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real."

"If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity."

"Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action."

"Let us play hide and seek in a mountain which is like a women's back."

"A bull that allows a he goat to deter it from moving forward is nothing but a mere he goat."

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"When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor."