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"Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket."

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep."

"Put your ears to the ground, to the sky, to the sun and the moon... tune in to Mother Earth's sweet song. She has messages to say, knowledge to relay, inspiration to convey... there is much for you to learn. Your journey has just begun."

"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."
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"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul."


"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"


"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."


"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."


"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."


"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."


"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."


"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."


"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape."
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