― note

• extensive list of quotes collected ~2024 and before
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　꒰┊ literature

• "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." — t.e. lawrence, seven pillars of wisdom (1926)

　

• "Everybody should be quiet near a little stream and listen." — ruth krauss, open house for butterflies (1960)

　

• "He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused..." — neil gaiman, stardust (1999)

　　　　― undated

• "The art of living well and the art of dying well are one." — epicurus

　꒰┊ other

　　　　― unattributed

• "And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul."

　

• "Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars."