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Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die. ↗

— John Keats

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For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not blue the obvious deduction. To trail the genealogies of these high mortal miseries, carries us at last among the sourceless primogenitures of the gods; so that, in the face of all the glad, hay-making suns, and the softcymballing, round the harvest-moons, we must needs give in to this: that the gods themselves are not for ever glad. The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers. ↗

— Herman Melville

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You don't need to know what you want. You only need to know what you don't want... ↗

— Julia Heywood

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The Anticipation is annihilated by the act ↗

— KC Rhoads

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To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart? ↗

— Carroll Bryant

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I do, I am ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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In every journey comes a moment... one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between who you are... and who you want to be. ↗

— J.C. Marino

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If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients seem to have had reason to decide that bringing their creations to full completion likewise required a correspondence bewteen the measure of individual elements and the appearance of the work as a whole. ↗

— Vitruvius

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[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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