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

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

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Between the figure and the shadow is where all the secret energy lies. – Terri Guillemets

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Sometimes I have to stand on my head to see things as they are, when the world seems so upside-down that this is the only position in which anything makes sense. – Author unknown

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I am the Love Cactus. Make desert to me. – Jarod Kintz, My love can only occupy one person at a time

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