I might have known better, nothing is what everybody wants, the world runs on that law. Personally, if I could, I would instigate Meat-Axe Day, and out of the goodness of my heart I would whack your head off with a couple of others. Every man should be allowed one day and a hatchet just to ease his heart. Djuna Barnes
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  1. She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and...

  2. There's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust

  3. The ballerina on perfected toe Spins to the axis of a fortitude That is the sum of all her yesterdays.

  4. The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

  5. ...he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called deficient.

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