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“The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.”
Source : Fragment 94
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“Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, to surpass it, or to limit it.”
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“It's important to run not on the fast track, but on your track. Pretend that you have only six months to live, and make three lists: the things you have to do, want to do, and neither have to do nor want to do. Then, for the rest of your life, forget everything on the third list.”
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“You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.”
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“You have to own your days and name them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.”
Source : "A Thousand Clowns; Thieves; The Goodbye People".
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“The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.”
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“It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.”
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“A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.”
Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
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“This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.”
Source : Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.254
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“My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.”
