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"What divine music she lured out of the old violin--merry and sad, gay and sorrowful by turns, music such as the stars of morning might have made singing together, music that the fairies might have danced to in their revels among the green hills or on yellow sands, music that might have mourned over the grave of a dead hope. Then she drifted into a still sweeter strain. As he listened to it he rea...

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  • "My heart wants roots. My mind wants wings. I cannot bear their bickerings." E.Y. Harburg
  • "Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns its fragrant lamps and turns into a royal court with green festoons the banks of dark lagoons." Henry Timrod
  • "The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make the billows smooth and bright --and this was odd, because it was the middle of the night." Carroll
  • "What were you made for? I first encountered the sentence at Haim Algranati’s (a great luthier who crafts brilliant guitars who lives in London) In a documentary movie, he said that each day he stops for 5 minutes and focuses on those five words - What were you made for? This ritual helps him find happiness and meaning in his life."
  • “But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.” Vincent van Gogh
  • "I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night." Sylvia Plath
  • “When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song. When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest. When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king. When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder.” Rabindranath Tagore
  • "You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you." Isadora Duncan (Dancer, 1877-1927)
  • ‎"I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw." Edvard Munch
  • "Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." Salvador Dalí
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