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Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings originally published in 2004

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i'm not everything i want to be, but i'm more than i was, and i'm still learning.

// charlotte eriksson

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snoopy of the day

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May the flowers remind us why the rain was so necessary.

// Xan Oku

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Monet's pink paintings.

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one must be sincere. sincere at any price, even to our own detriment.

// albert camus

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“modern venus”,  2014 by Norman Engel

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. 

–Gilbert K. Chesterton

(sunset in Venice)

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it is never too late to be what you might have been.

// george eliot

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Capriccio: The Grand Canal, with an Imaginary Rialto Bridge and Other Buildings painted by Canaletto (1697 - 1768)

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lips of honey, eyes of fire.

// meleager, tr. by peter whigham, from greek anthology Epigrams

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. 

// Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

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Branch In Bloom

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at midnight, in the month of June, i stand beneath the mystic moon.

// edgar allan poe

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