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• A flowers falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. -- Doge
• Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine-- A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and shrine, All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers, And all the flowers were mine.
  -- Edgar Allan Poe...
• Deteriorata: Go placidly amid the noise and waste and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
  Avoid quiet and passive persons unless you are in need of sleep....
• Sex is a momentary itch, Love never lets you go. -- Kingsley Ami
• There is in certain living souls A quality of loneliness unspeakable, So great it must be shared As company is shared by lesser beings.
  Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this That in immensity There is one lonelier than you....
• It's nobody's business, not even mine.
• First you must learn to control your /self/. The rest follows.
  Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes....
• Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. -- George Santayana (1863-1952)
• Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
  -- Thornton Wilde...