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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump, you may be freeing him from being a camel."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump, you may be freeing him from being a camel."
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"When you're as hot as you are, no amount of ice will do."
Anthony T. Hincks
"When you're as hot as you are, no amount of ice will do."
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"What runs through a person like water through a sieve."
Samuel Butler
"What runs through a person like water through a sieve."
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"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."
Augustine of Hippo
"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."
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"Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action."
Virginia Woolf
"Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action."
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"Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101."
Anne Lamott
"Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101."
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"Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness."
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness."
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"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."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"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."
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"Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun."
Ray Bradbury
"Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun."
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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."
David Mitchell
"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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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."
Henry David Thoreau
"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."
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"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen."
Marie Lu
"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen."
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"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."
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"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."
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"I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear."
Maggie Stiefvater
"I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear."
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"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."
Dean Koontz
"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."
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"Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real."
Terry Pratchett
"Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real."
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"What was my path to success? Well, there were some steps forward, some back, some to the side... maybe it wasn't a path, but more of a dance."
Steve Maraboli
"What was my path to success? Well, there were some steps forward, some back, some to the side... maybe it wasn't a path, but more of a dance."
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"There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense."
Philip K. Dick
"There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense."
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"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."
Libba Bray
"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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"Poetry isn't an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn't a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn't swimming. Poetry is water."
Kamand Kojouri
"Poetry isn't an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn't a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn't swimming. Poetry is water."
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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."
Munia Khan
"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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"A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!"
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!"
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"Life is nether food nor drink. But the faith of a dance dream."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Life is nether food nor drink. But the faith of a dance dream."
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