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Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think th

Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. РAlbert Szent-Gy̦rgyi

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Yearning for sun and starlight, roses and winter, together. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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