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"Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be."

"Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist breath whistling through willow reeds; a pattering beat background to the mourner's melody. Rain is a soft song of compassion for the brokenhearted."

"Oh, mightiest wind,wilt thou cease thy breathing inand hold thy exhales?"

"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."

"No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower."

"All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within."

"Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins."

"The best friends of the highest mountains are only the clouds and the adventurer mountaineers!"
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"The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty."

"But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem."

"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
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