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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween - Douglas Coupland

#Douglas Coupland #all hallows eve #pumpkins #costume #trick or treat #courage #genuine #children playing #bats #october 31

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The present rooted in the past allures me - Horace Annesley Vachell

#Horace Annesley Vachell #squirrel #homestead #farmhouse #snowing #pinecone #christmas eve #christmas tree #present #past #nostalgia #history #throwback #chimney smoke #family time #cozy aesthetic

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I can’t stand fairy tales. They’re all the same. If you’re very good and very beautiful with long golden curls, then, after you’ve swept up a few cinders or had a long nap in a cobwebby palace, this prince comes along and you live happily ever after - Jacqueline Wilson

#Jacqueline Wilson #the frog prince #fairy tale #frog #golden hair #princess #lily pond #morning glory #blossoms #prince #happily ever after #all the same #beautiful #crown #palace #bridge

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Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings - Kate Thompson

#harold gaze #fairies #old irish #kate thompson #bubbles #a dream #creatures #mythology #gorgeous #rainbow #water spray #castle #fairy tales

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Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day - William Shakespeare

#william shakespere #woe #destruction #decay #death #gothic #castle #halloween #fantasy castle #ruins #haunted #darkness #evil

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"Three women were transformed into flowers which stood in a field. However, one of them was allowed to be in her own house at night. One time when day was approaching, and she would have to go back to her companions in the field and become a flower again, she said to her husband, "If you will come this morning and pick me, I shall be set free and stay with you from then on." And that is what happened. Now the question is, how did her husband recognize her, for the flowers were exactly alike, and without any difference? Answer: While she was in her house during the night and not in the field, the dew did not fall on her as it did on the other two, and by this her husband recognized her" - A Riddling Tale, Grimm Brothers

#grimm #fairy tales #flowers #bluebirds #field #nature #husband #recognition #night #dew #riddle

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Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze - Aime Cesaire

#Aime Cesaire #windy day #breeze #evening #clean #laundry #washing #chickens #girl #farm living #apple orchard #harvest time

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All my life I've been flirting. I'm no different. I still carry on the same way - Guy Laliberte

#Guy Laliberte #koening #flirt #fan #18th century #courtly love #wigs #upper class #crush

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For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women - Sylvia Plath

#Sylvia Plath #crest of the storm #arthur prince spear #mermaids #fish #sea #ocean #god #santa claus #logic #seahorse #cursing #fishermen #myth #legend #belief #coast #women #maidens #water nymph #fantasy

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You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared - Robbie Robertson

#Robbie Robertson #old russia #stumble #heritage #culture #customs #festival #celebration #birthday party #waiting #family #shared #explored #cake #summertime #pets #russian church #woods #nature #gathering

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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper - Bertrand Russell

#Bertrand Russell #pixies #pond #margaret tarrant #world #magical thinking #patiently #wits #primroses #sisters #forest #glade #grove #pool #clearing #enchantment #1920s

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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning - J. B. Priestley

#J. B. Priestley #new day #nursery rhymes #milkmaid #storybook #prospect #fresh start #magic #countryside #cottage #olden times #morning #delight #waiting #patience #yearning #longing

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If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone - Maxwell Maltz

#Maxwell Maltz #friends #dandelions #stars #alone #firs #world #little girl #happiness #inner peace #inexorable

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They can’t order me to stop dreaming - Cinderella

#dreams #cinderella #pink dress #fairy tales #brothers grimm #carriage #ball #fairy godmother #coach #stars #magical #evening #dreams come true #happily ever after

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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too! - Abraham Cowley

#Abraham Cowley #house #garden #friends #books #delightful #greetings #the neighbourhood #cozy core #bunnies #spring #susan wheeler

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We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend - Robert Louis Stevenson

#Robert Louis Stevenson #larry macdougall #snowy rambles #racoon #animals #friendship #world #wilderness #honest #travellers #travels #adventuring #pony

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At all events, we will make believe that there are fairies in the world. It will not be the last time by many a one that we shall have to make believe. And yet, after all, there is no need for that. There must be fairies; for this is a fairy tale: and how can one have a fairy tale if there are no fairies? - Charles Kingsley

#Charles Kingsley #the water babies #fairy tale #owl #pixies #make believe #imagination #fairies