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"I make the most of all that comes

the least of all that goes."

Sara Teasdale, from "The Philosopher"

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"A light here required a shadow there."

Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse

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"I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me."

Roland Barthes, "The Pleasure of the Text"

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"The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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"There isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance, prevails."

Raymond Carver, from "The Author of Her Misfortune"

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"I am rooted, but I flow."

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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"Keep awake, alive, new. Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive."

Tennessee Williams, from a diary entry on February 25, 1942

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"Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances."

Robert Hass, from "Meditation at Lagunitas"

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"The world is too much with us;"

William Wordsworth, from "The World Is Too Much With Us"

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"The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour, And for me, now as then, it is too much. There is too much world."

Czeslaw Milosz, from The Separate Notebooks, trans. by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass

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"Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all."

Hermann Hesse, Wandering

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