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W. H. Auden

Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse’s flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on.

Fall, Falling, Flower, Flowers, Gone, Nurse

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Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

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We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

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All that we are not stares back at what we are.

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Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

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Cassandra Clare

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They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that. But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart.

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Milan Kundera

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In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at the time by other Communists were awarded such abuse. Unlike those who had their feet solidly on the ground, they were said to float in the air. So it was fair, in a way, that as punishment the ground was permanently pulled out from under their feet, that they remained suspended a little above the floor.

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Edward Abbey

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Man was created to complete the horse.

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I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was raised in a pit of snakes
Blink your eyes - I was raised on cake. "

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