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Bloodlines - Mimicking Birds

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“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

Edward Said

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What begins as an unguarded Train of thoughts slowly can become An addiction to the slumber Of disconnection and the resonance Of memory that no longer has a shape But keeps you numb through The hours till gone is another day Be aware, my darling These things I say I mean Are just traces of something I long to feel again I see our time expand In the air almost forcibly, Spreading thinner till it dissolves completely

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus

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Don't worry about being original. Just be authentic.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Dreaming of summer in the middle of winter.

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I don't need from you a waterfall of careless praise

And I don't need a trophy for all the games I've played

But all I want is your eyes

in the morning as we wake

for a short while

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Umbrellas - The City Lights

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Things come full circle. And sometimes it's necessary to travel across oceans only to find your way back home.

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Four and one half years in the making. Today is the day!

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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through—that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it. You must want to own all of it. We will try to ward you away. We will try to explain to you that we have already walked that path. We will try to tell you that we have made your mistakes. We will claim that we are trying to spare you. But you will see our greed and self-service hiding behind our words. You will see us ward you away with one hand, while the other still shakes at the memories. Here is the thing—you have the right to every end of your exploration and no motherfucker anywhere can tell you otherwise.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Clearing

Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you recognize and greet it. Only then will you know how to give yourself to this world so worthy of rescue.

Martha Postlewaite

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When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Maya Angelou

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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

Franz Kafka  (via bornnotmade)