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"It was a pleasure to burn…Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame." ~~Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

“Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ’em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That’s our official slogan.” Guy Montag, Fahrenheit 451
 
". . . I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death."

Elizabeth Barret Browning
"How Do I Love Thee?"
Sonnets From the Portugese, Sonnet 43
 
“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
~~Mitch Albom, 'For One More Day'

(I miss you little brother!! 4/3/87~1/8/13 </3 )
 
You don't stop laughing because you grow old.
You grow old because you stop laughing.
Mike Dirnt
 
There is nothing like desire for preventing
the thing one says from bearing any
resemblance to what one has in mind.

A la recherché du temps perdu: Le Cote de Guermantes
by Marcel Proust
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:)
 
Nice ones Hedwig and Princess Fiona :)
Oh! Dreadful is the check – intense the agony –
When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see;
When the pulse begins to throb, and the brain to think again,
The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.

The Prisoner
by Emily Bronte
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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin ....Poor Richard's Almanack
Andy
 
Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.

Philoctetes
by Sophocles


Tis strange what a man may do, and a
woman yet think him an angel.

The Book of Snobs
by William Makepeace Thackery
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:)
 
Princess Fiona, the whole text by Emerson is one of my favourites!

"My dear boy, please don't put a label on me - don't make me a category before you get to know me!"
John Irving: In One Person
 
Like your new avatar Hedwig. Here's another by Emerson.:)



Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbour’s creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.

Each and All
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(Aw, thanks for the compliment, Summerflyte! Don't tell me you know the film it's taken from!)

Lovely quote, too!
 
Hedwig said:
Princess Fiona, the whole text by Emerson is one of my favourites!

"My dear boy, please don't put a label on me - don't make me a category before you get to know me!"
John Irving: In One Person
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I'm quite fond of the whole canon of Emerson...and then there is Emerson, Lake and Palmer:D
 
They stumble over truth but continue as if nothing happened.

Not sure who said that first...but I took it from the book BEACH RED by Peter Bowman.
Andy
 
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Chuang Tse (H. A. Giles), Ch.2
by Zhuangzi
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@ Hedwig, sorry I don't know the film your avatar was taken from, I don't watch much TV at all, and I'm not into celebrities either.;)
 
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