Quote by Emily Dickinson
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mi

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. – Emily Dickinson

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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. – Emily Dickinson

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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. – Emily Dickinson

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I like a look of Agony, because I know its true — men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe — – Emily Dickinson

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I am sorry.. Can only say time accelerated and skidded…. When my correspondents reproach me for tardiness, I can only say that I give as much attention to a letter as I do to anything I write, and I work at least six and sometimes sixteen hours a day. – William S. Burroughs, letter to Mother and Dad, 1959

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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to – no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! – Catharine M. Sedgwick

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. – Walt Whitman

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Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. – Amy Clampitt

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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom. – Bodhidharma

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By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties. – Wilhelm Frick

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Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. – Michael Morpurgo

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