Muse of the Day
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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Muse of the Day
No net ensnares me…
Muse of the Day
I do love the beginning of the summer hols,’ said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.’‘They go so nice and slowly at first,’ said Anne, his little sister. ‘Then they start to gallop. Enid Blyton, Five Go Off in a Caravan
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The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. It’s depressing if you spend too much time reliving old joys. You think you’ll never have anything as good again. Peter Benchley, Jaws
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
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The air of those rooms was saturated with the fine bouquet of a silence so nourishing, so succulent, that I never went into them without a sort of greedy anticipation, particularly on those first mornings, chilly still, of the Easter holidays, when I could taste it more fully because I had only just arrived in Combray[…] Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
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I miss your fragrance, sometimes I miss it this much that I can clearly smell you in the air. Qaisar Iqbal Janjua
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What a strange thing it is to wake up to a milk-white overcast June morning…
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Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Muse of the Day
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
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