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Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie.

Miyamoto Musashi

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*walks through bead curtains while 60s psychedelic rock plays*

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A desire drifts across the dream stilled landscape and I listen to its echo until a stranger answers back.

L. A. Johnson, from “Late Light Night,” Foundry (no. 14, Fall 2020)

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if that ain’t me then give it up

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“Come darkness, moonlight, everything That is so silent, sweet and pale, Come, so ye wake the nightingale.”

— Bird Raptures, Christina Rossetti (via trembling-star)

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“It hovers between memory and dream.”

— A.O. Scott, from “At the New York Film Festival, a Defense of Human Dignity,” The New York Times (30 September 2016)

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Chinese Qing Dynasty Gilt Edges Famille Rose Porcelain Teapot w Yongzheng Mark   

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“That frozen star there, / Or this one on the water,— / Which is more distant?”

— Richard Wright, from Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon, eds. Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert L. Tener (Arcade Publishing, 2012)

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Orchid Mantis

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Lost worlds, Andrea Guzzetta

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“November is a hinge in the year, and the door gets opened to ghosts.”

— Nina MacLaughlin, from “On the First of November, the Ghosts Arrive”, The Paris Review

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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.

Adyashanti

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“No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.”

— Richard Yates

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“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”

— Murakami Haruki, from Sputnik Sweetheart