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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.


Salvatore Quasimodo

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GARY F EVANS... Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Can I buy you a drink when you get off?"

"I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs."
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TOBA BETA I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.
L.J. SMITH She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
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TAMMARA WEBBER I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door.
“Ri...
JEANIENE FROST The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes.
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GARY F EVANS... These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive r...
CONNILYN COSSETTE We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
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GARY F EVANS... A great future starts with what you can see
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C. JOYBELL C. I have seen a stunning amount of death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Man...
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
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Stuck in her daydream
Been that way since eigh...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I have to get out.
VERONICA ROTH Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone.
You don't even care, do yo...
J.K. SIMMONS The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.
BREE DESPAIN Why must you hurt me, when I love you so? When I can do nothing else nor want to, for love made me a...
STEPHEN KING the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The night is long that never finds the day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
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GARY F EVANS... A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
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RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
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"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is ...
GEORGE HARRISON Quizá para ti hay un
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M. SCOTT PECK In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.
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ARUNDHATI ROY Status quos are made to be broken.
RAY A. DAVIS I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Let the wind blow, lad
Let fall the deep snow,
Let the stars fall, lad
we'll answer ...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN The only perspective is to really be there.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY The worst things in life come free to us
ED SHEERAN

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