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"Saudade - the presence of absence"
"Come and smell the very sweetest scent of all,.." (T. E. Lawrence - "Lawrence of Arabia")
"I am not a man,..." (Harold Norse)
"I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son,..." (Book of Amos)
"For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings;..." (William Shakespeare)
"Not all those who wander are lost,..." (J. R. R. Tolkien)
"It was his own plaid shirt ... stolen by Jack and hidden here inside Jack's own shirt, the pair like two skins, one inside the other, two in one." (Annie Proulx)
"... daffodils, That come before the swallow dares,..." (William Shakespeare)
"I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars,..." (T. E. Lawrence - "Lawrence of Arabia")
"Have you left no sense of decency?" (Joseph Welch)
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions,..." (Lillian Hellman)
"...there lies one insular Tahiti,..." (Herman Melville)
"Demon or bird! (said the boy's soul,)..." (Walt Whitman)
"Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips." (Walt Whitman)
"Now Voyager depart! (much, much for thee is yet in store;)" (Walt Whitman)
"I am the grass, Let me work." (Carl Sandburg)
"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow!" (William Shakespeare)
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Arthur C. Clarke)
"But is it the God of the the Catholics or the God of the Protestants,..." (Quentin Crisp)
"Wisdom and goodness to the vile,..." (William Shakespeare)
"The Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt" (Umberto Eco)

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