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Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind, ” she said with a hintof sadness.“ You lost your mind a long time ago, ” he said seriously. She looked at him with indignation. “That’s a compliment for anyone who knows the freedom and clarity of losing their mind, ” he reaffirmed her.Daniel J. Rice
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Their minds told them this life was not their own. This life was not the one designed for this body and soul. The truth of existence was a happiness separated from the easy happy life. There was music in the forest. There was clean air where nobody could hear him breathe.Daniel J. Rice
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The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.Daniel J. Rice
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The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.Daniel J. Rice
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This was going to be difficult, because he enjoyed women, but all the ones he has known seemed to be sent as secret assassins on a mission to destroy his pride and ability.Daniel J. Rice
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This was going to be difficult, because he enjoyed women, but all the ones he has known seemed to have been sent as secret assassins on a mission to destroy his pride and ability.Daniel J. Rice
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The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach. Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of knowing nothing but his finite existence.Daniel J. Rice
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There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.Daniel J. Rice
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A man without enemies is a dishonest man.Daniel J. Rice
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What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions.Daniel J. Rice
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If you have not touched the rocky wall of a canyon. If you have not heard a rushing river pound over cobblestones. If you have not seen a native trout rise in a crystalline pool beneath a shattering riffle, or a golden eagle spread its wings and cover you in shadow. If you have not seen the tree line recede to the top of a bare crested mountain. If you have not looked into a pair of wild eyes and seen your own reflection. Please, for the good of your soul, travel west.Daniel J. Rice
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The truth of existence was a happiness separated from the easy happy life. There was music in the forest. There was clean air where nobody could hear him breathe.Daniel J. Rice
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Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.Daniel J. Rice
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As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.Daniel J. Rice
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My hands are flowing like sunlight. The shapes and colors are astounding. I don't understand these images that are empowering me. My brush touches the canvas like photons to the earth, and a new world develops, free from my control, yet intrinsically dependent upon me. I am sweating with elation. I have no idea what I am doing, or what it is my hands are trying to see. There is so much strength in this clarity I am overpowered by the independence of it. .Daniel J. Rice
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Every falling leaf reminds me that I too will soon be separated from these trees. Trying to capture freedom is like trying to catch a falling leaf. Occasionally you may grab one out of the air and hold it in your hands, but now what?Daniel J. Rice