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Metaphor Quotes


"When you're as hot as you are, no amount of ice will do."


"What runs through a person like water through a sieve."


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


"How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage."


"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."


"Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber."


"Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest."


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


"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."


"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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