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"Oh, 'tis not strange: / Love has an intellect that runs through all / The scrutinous sciences, and like / A cunning poet, catches a quantity / Of every knowledge, yet brings all home / Into one mystery, into one secret / That he proceeds in."

"Hail, bright Titania! / Why stand'st thou idle on these flow'ry banks? / Oberon is dancing with his Dryades; / I'll gather daisies, primrose, violets, / And bind them in a verse of poesie."

"How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy;"

"W'are so like / In our expressions, lady, That unless I borrow / The same words, I shall never find their equals."

"Be better advis'd, sir: / Our eyes are sentinels unto our judgments, / And should give certain judgment what they see; / But they are rash sometimes, and tell us wonders / Of common things, which when our judgments find, / They can then check the eyes, and call them blind."

"We all create stories to protect ourselves."

"You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now."

"Basically, what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly."

"Good morning to the day; and, next, my gold: / Open the shrine, that I may see my saint."

"The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms."

"She should have understood his breakable quality sooner. He was a creature of habit, he belonged with the last century."

"Love was like childhood for him. It opened him up, he was silly and relaxed."

"So at this stage in his life his mind raced ahead of his body."

"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?"

"The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving."

"And I survived because I made a point of forgetting."

"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always."

"Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others—and I am one of those—never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life-hungry stupidity."

"All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive."

"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."

"Such is the strangeness of the human heart."

"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity — it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can."

"He picked the skull out of the sink and held it in one hand, mournfully. "Alas, poor Yorick!" he said." Haahaha

"We can't all be Mad Hatters,"

"Ruin stares me in the face. […] Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy? Make toast!"

"He's too wrapped up in himself to see beyond his nose half the time."

"You can't be fussy when you're off to seek your fortune."

Well, I am done for now (read ~15 plays so far)… but I will be back! ♡

"But love that comes too late, / Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, / To the great sender turns a sour offense, / Crying, "That's good that's gone." / Our rash faults / Make trivial price of serious things we have, / Not knowing them until we know their grave." (V.3.57-62)