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“So much of our life is the circling of a dream. The dream, a changeable elusive presence, is at the heart of our identity, it is the fabric to which all our qualities are stitched. Did it matter that the dream never found fruition in the physical world? The important thing was never to relinquish it. It’s the dream which keeps beauty as an animating source of strength in our lives, which reminds us we are connected to a larger reality.”
― Byron and Shelley
― Byron and Shelley
“Sadness, essentially, is the ghost of happiness.”
― Scorched Earth
― Scorched Earth
“It's like men and women sing different words to the same song.”
― The War in Venice
― The War in Venice
“Beauty is a private moment in the mind, which we then seek to communicate.”
― Scorched Earth
― Scorched Earth
“It's only when I'm sad that I feel truly wise.”
― Scorched Earth
― Scorched Earth
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