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