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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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No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. – Terry Pratchett

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Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous. – John Jay Chapman

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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions. – Arthur Bloch

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Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part. – Jacqueline Bisset

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