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

John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant

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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump, you may be freeing him from being a camel."

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

"The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?"

"Life is nether food nor drink. But the faith of a dance dream."

"Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed."

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