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Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, un

Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnamable. – Francis Ponge

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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by “living”? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. – e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954

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We are asleep with compasses in our hands. – W.S. Merwin

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…and leave wishes to those foolish enough to make them. – Terri Guillemets

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