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"And you must not expect to find that people understand what they do. So many things are done instinctively, the way a bee makes honey or a fox dips his paws in a stream to fool dogs. A fox can’t say why he does it, and what bee remembers winter or expects it to come again?" — 18 hours, 29 min ago
"And you must not expect to find that people understand what they do. So many things are done instinctively, the way a bee makes honey or a fox dips his paws in a stream to fool dogs. A fox can’t say why he does it, and what bee remembers winter or expects it to come again?" — 18 hours, 29 min ago
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"French letter still in my pocketbook. Cause of half the trouble. But might happen sometime, I don’t think. Come in, all is prepared. I dreamt. What? Worst is beginning. How they change the venue when it’s not what they like. Ask you do you like mushrooms because she once knew a gentleman who. Or ask you what someone was going to say when he changed his mind and stopped." — Mar 16, 2026 07:27AM
"French letter still in my pocketbook. Cause of half the trouble. But might happen sometime, I don’t think. Come in, all is prepared. I dreamt. What? Worst is beginning. How they change the venue when it’s not what they like. Ask you do you like mushrooms because she once knew a gentleman who. Or ask you what someone was going to say when he changed his mind and stopped." — Mar 16, 2026 07:27AM
“Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. Now many are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable; as language, sleep, madness, dreams, beasts, sex.”
― Nature
― Nature
“And no more turn aside and brood
Upon love’s bitter mystery;
For Fergus rules the brazen cars.
And rules the shadows of the wood,
And the white breast of the dim sea
And all disheveled wandering stars.”
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Upon love’s bitter mystery;
For Fergus rules the brazen cars.
And rules the shadows of the wood,
And the white breast of the dim sea
And all disheveled wandering stars.”
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“The flat unraised spirits that have dared”
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― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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