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"“â€� there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little â€� perhaps their ardour in generous unpaid toil cooled as imperceptibly as the ardour of other youthful loves, till one day their earlier self walked like a ghost in its old home and made the new furniture ghastly. Nothing in the world more subtle than the process of their gradual change!â€�" — Mar 14, 2025 06:28AM
"“â€� there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little â€� perhaps their ardour in generous unpaid toil cooled as imperceptibly as the ardour of other youthful loves, till one day their earlier self walked like a ghost in its old home and made the new furniture ghastly. Nothing in the world more subtle than the process of their gradual change!â€�" — Mar 14, 2025 06:28AM


“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance.”
― Complete Works
― Complete Works

“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
― Eros the Bittersweet
― Eros the Bittersweet

“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulseâ€�.”
― Illuminations
― Illuminations

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”
― Complete Works
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”
― Complete Works
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