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“Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.”

“Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.”

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“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”--Lao Tzu

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”--Lao Tzu

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“The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.” ― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

“The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.” ― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

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"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."--Henry Ward Beecher

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."--Henry Ward Beecher

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“The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after,” ― Lois Lowry, Number the Stars

“The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after,” ― Lois Lowry, Number the Stars

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“But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?” --Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?” --Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."---Vincent Van Gogh

"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."---Vincent Van Gogh

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“Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.” ― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.” ― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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“Everyone knows they're going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”

“Everyone knows they're going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”

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“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.” ---Leonard Cohen

“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.” ---Leonard Cohen

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“I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.” --Melissa de la Cruz

“I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.” --Melissa de la Cruz

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"The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised."---Victor Hugo

"The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised."---Victor Hugo

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“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.” ---José Saramago

“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.” ---José Saramago

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"Books are the mirrors of the soul."---Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."---Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

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“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.” ---Taherah Mafi, Shatter Me

“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.” ---Taherah Mafi, Shatter Me

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"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."---Charles Bukowski

"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."---Charles Bukowski

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"Freedom is not possible without authority, otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny." ---Stefan Zweig

"Freedom is not possible without authority, otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny." ---Stefan Zweig

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“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”---Marilyn Monroe

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”---Marilyn Monroe

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“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.”― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems

“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.”― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems

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“I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.”― Hermann Hesse

“I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.”― Hermann Hesse

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“Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ― Lao Tzu

“Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ― Lao Tzu

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“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

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“I serve the king of dreams and I do his bidding. But you are correct once I was a poet and like all poets I spent too long in the kingdom of dreams.”---from The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

“I serve the king of dreams and I do his bidding. But you are correct once I was a poet and like all poets I spent too long in the kingdom of dreams.”---from The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

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“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"

“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"

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"The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old, but more importantly, trodden upon.” ---Martin Hopkins

"The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old, but more importantly, trodden upon.” ---Martin Hopkins

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“So many books, so little time.”― Frank Zappa

“So many books, so little time.”― Frank Zappa

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“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”---― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”---― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of." - Sir Walter Scott

"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of." - Sir Walter Scott

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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. "---Harper Lee

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. "---Harper Lee

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“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” --Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” --Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time

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"The world is not a wish-granting factory."---John Green

"The world is not a wish-granting factory."---John Green

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"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."---Giordano Bruno

"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."---Giordano Bruno

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"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again." ---Sylvia Plath

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again." ---Sylvia Plath

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"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."---George Bernard Shaw

"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."---George Bernard Shaw

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"What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!"---H.P. Lovecraft

"What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!"---H.P. Lovecraft

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"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."---Rebecca West

"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."---Rebecca West

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"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late."---Charles Caleb Colton

"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late."---Charles Caleb Colton

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"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."---John Berger

"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."---John Berger

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"Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light."---Jean Giraudoux

"Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light."---Jean Giraudoux

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"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."---Albert Camus

"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."---Albert Camus

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"Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails."---Plato

"Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails."---Plato

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"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together."---Herbert Prochnow

"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together."---Herbert Prochnow

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"A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless."---May Sarton

"A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless."---May Sarton

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"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see."---John Burroughs

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see."---John Burroughs

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"We do not remember days; we remember moments."---Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand

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"Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again."---Rosa Parks

"Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again."---Rosa Parks

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"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."---Anatole France

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."---Anatole France

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"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

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"If cats could talk, they wouldn't."---Nan Porter

"If cats could talk, they wouldn't."---Nan Porter

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"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible"

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible"

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Why do people say things like 'hot as hell' or 'loud as hell'? Who's to say hell isn't freezing cold with a void of deafening silence??

Why do people say things like 'hot as hell' or 'loud as hell'? Who's to say hell isn't freezing cold with a void of deafening silence??

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"It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back."---Bill Vaughn

"It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back."---Bill Vaughn

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"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."---Moshe Dayan

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."---Moshe Dayan

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"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."---Elwyn Brooks White

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."---Elwyn Brooks White

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"There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins."---Josh Billings

"There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins."---Josh Billings

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"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."---Robert Adams

"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."---Robert Adams

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"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent."---Samuel Johnson

"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent."---Samuel Johnson

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"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."---Henry Miller

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."---Henry Miller

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"We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions."---Ian Percy

"We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions."---Ian Percy

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"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."---Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins

"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."---Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins

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"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets."---Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets."---Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction."---Robert Brault

"There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction."---Robert Brault

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‎"It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right."---Logan Pearsall Smith

‎"It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right."---Logan Pearsall Smith

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"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."---Daniel Webster

"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."---Daniel Webster

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"I have my own little world, but it's okay - they know me here."---Unknown

"I have my own little world, but it's okay - they know me here."---Unknown

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Bilora Bella 46

Bilora Bella 46

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A few of my favorite things...

A few of my favorite things...

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Polaroid SX-70

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"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."---Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays

"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."---Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays

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"If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame."---Adam Duritz, 'Mrs. Potter's Lullaby,' performed by Counting Crows

"If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame."---Adam Duritz, 'Mrs. Potter's Lullaby,' performed by Counting Crows

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Polaroid SX-70

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"Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man."---Paul Gray

"Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man."---Paul Gray

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Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long... ~Ogden Nash, "Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours," New Yorker, 1959 April 4

Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long... ~Ogden Nash, "Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours," New Yorker, 1959 April 4

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“In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats”

“In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats”

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"I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?"---Henry Moore

"I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?"---Henry Moore

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"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."---Raymond Hull

"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."---Raymond Hull

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"Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."

"Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."

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“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”

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“One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.” ---Elisabeth Elliot

“One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.” ---Elisabeth Elliot

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“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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“There’s always a bear,” ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“There’s always a bear,” ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

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“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.” --- Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.” --- Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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"I think that the only reason people hold onto memories so tight is because memories are the only things that dont change; when everybody else does."---Unknown

"I think that the only reason people hold onto memories so tight is because memories are the only things that dont change; when everybody else does."---Unknown

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“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” ---Pablo Neruda

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” ---Pablo Neruda

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"I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me."---Lorna Luft

"I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me."---Lorna Luft

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“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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Step One PX600

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Diana

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Holga

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Kodak Hawkeye Flashfun II

Kodak Hawkeye Flashfun II

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Bencini Koroll

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“We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.” ---Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.” ---Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."---Jean Cocteau

"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."---Jean Cocteau

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“Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you… yet, someone survived… You can do anything you choose to do.” –Maya Angelou

“Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you… yet, someone survived… You can do anything you choose to do.” –Maya Angelou

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“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

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“By changing nothing, nothing changes.” -Tony Robbins

“By changing nothing, nothing changes.” -Tony Robbins

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"Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?"---Stephen LaBerge

"Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?"---Stephen LaBerge

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"Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.”---Stephen King

"Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.”---Stephen King

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"But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near." ---W.H. Davies

"But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near." ---W.H. Davies

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