Dactyl

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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC."

-kurt vonnegut

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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

-Maya Angelou

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"If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. It explains what lies between them!"

-Victor hugo

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Because the birdsong might be pretty, But it's not for you they sing,

And if you think my winter is too cold, You don't deserve my spring.

-Erin Hanson

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"She turned to the sunlight, And shook her yellow head; And whispered to her neighbor: Winter is dead."

-A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

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"Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night."

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

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"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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"This heavy humanness."

- Rilke

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"I wish I knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart."

-Sylvia Plath

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"I am tired of myself tonight, I should like to be someone else."

-Oscar Wilde

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Eloise Bridgerton: "We should both aspire to be just like her. Unmarried, and Earning our own money."

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Lady Whistledown: It has been said that, “Of all bitches dead or alive, a scribbling woman is the most canine.” If that should be true, then this author would like to show you her teeth."

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Simon Basset: “To meet a beautiful woman is one thing, but to meet your best friend in the most beautiful of women is something entirely apart.”

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Daphne Bridgerton: “You have no idea what it is to be a woman. What it might feel like to have one’s entire life reduced to a single moment”

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Eloise Bridgerton : “What if I want to fly?”