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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Sigmund Freud

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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse       Not shaking the grass

Ezra Pound, And The Days Are Not Full Enough (poem)

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tenderness is in the hands ― Carolyn Forché, L’Avventura (1960), Ocean Vuong, The White Ribbon (2009), Hart Crane, Gelatin Silver, Love (2009), Ingeborg Bachmann, Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Sylvia Plath, Psycho (1960), Rod McKuen (stills by @forhandsthatsuffer)

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Two of the oldest lovers

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"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

~Martin Luther King Jr.

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another roadside attraction

novel by tom robbins

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"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." Ayn Rand.

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yea

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Walk on your broken foot and leave no trace of your hand on anyone's shoulder.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“When you create a difference in someone’s life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime. No act is ever too small. One by one, this is how to make an ocean rise.”

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Danielle Doby

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Will these actions haunt my days?

Every man I've slain?

Is the price I pay endless pain?

Just A Man - Epic: The Musical

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“Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?”

— Ayelet Waldman

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لَعَلَّ اللهَ يَذْكُرُكَ لِمَلَائِكَتِهِ ؟

Perhaps Allah mentions your name to His angels ?

ربما يبتسم الله لك ؟

Perhaps Allah smiles at you ?

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“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”

— Leo Rosten

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May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude

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Damien Gernay - Mer noire, 2016

The coffee table Mer Noire takes its inspiration from the sea, both attractive and frightening, its perpetual movement and its ever changing appearance. With this piece I tried to capture the present moment, and to fix forever a fragment of the sea surface.