From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. - Lucretius

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You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.

Lucretius

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

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For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror therefore and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and law of nature.

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. . . Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.

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