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Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.


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I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.



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The heart lies to itself because it must.



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We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.



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We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.



I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.



Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.



When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.



Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.



WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.



We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed.

We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed.





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Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.



In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

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I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.

I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.



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Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.



I cruise the canyon to get some breeze With Hidden Treasures up my sleeve I like the light and hate the heat But I'll lick the blood right off your street

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I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.



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Thought is the seed of action.




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