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The elephant can no longer move its trunk. He knows he is thirsty but he can’t remember how to drink. He stands at the watering hole, alone.

Regret

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"My playhouse is underneath Our house, & I hear people Tellingeachothersecrets."

- Komunyakaa

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“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier, simpler.”

- Nietzche

I wondered if the other children would ever find me.

Ibelievethatalmostalloursadnessesaremoments of tension that we find paralyzingbecausewenolongerhearoursurprised feelings living.

-Rilke

They began to paw at the crust.

Their skin baked from the heat and flaked off in large chunks.

Their wings wet with the afterbirth of their dead mother.

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Fleas interest me so much that I let them bite me for hours.

They are perfect, ancient, Sanskrit, machines that admit of no appeal.

They do not bite to eat, they bite only to jump; they are the dancers of the celestial sphere, delicate acrobats in the softest and most profound circus; let them gallop on my skin, divulge their emotions, amuse themselves with my blood, but someone should introduce them to me.

I want to know them closely, I want to know what to rely on.

-Neruda

She’s aggressive with her opinions.

Sublime: Thebeautiful,accordingtoEdmundBurke,is what is well formed and aestheticallypleasing,whereasthesublimeis what has the power to compel and destroy us

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