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“Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.”

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Rumi, also known as Jalal al-Din Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic. His poetry is renowned for its profound philosophy, beautiful language, and strong emotions, and has had a profound impact on the world. more

“But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be a seabird? If you were a seabird your brain would be tiny and stupid and you would love half-rotted fish guts and tweaking the eyes out of little grazing animals; you would know no poetry and you could never appreciate flying as fully as the human on the ground yearning to be you. If you wanted to be a seabird you deserved to be one.”

Ifs Knows Humans Littles Would Be Eye Wanted Animal Brain Half Stupid Appreciate Fishes Tiny Flying Guts Be You Yearning Pointless Grazing

Author:Iain Banks

“Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.”

Trying States Feelings Love Is Vision Longing Ghost Disposition

Author:Judith Butler

“How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.”

Mean Doe Language Frightening Astonishing

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.”

Way Fall Empires

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.”

Noses

Book:THE SHINING

Source: THE SHINING

“There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw”

People Thinking Way Saws Scary Reckless Lost Souls City Of Lost Souls

Book:City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes.”

Knows Persons Doe Different Risk Celebrate

Author:Deborah Moggach

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