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“Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage."

Evan Esar

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

- Richard Ford

“There are men whose idea of life is tactic, who long for its continuation after death only because of their wish for permanence and not perfection; they love to imagine that the things to which they are accustomed will persist for ever. They complete”

- Rabindranath Tagore

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

-Lauren Bacall

“As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- there were times when we dreamed together, when we laughed and cried together. As I look back on those days, I realize how much I truly miss you and how much I truly love you. The past may be gone forever..and whatever the future holds, our todays make the memories of tomorrow. So, my lifetime friend, it is with all my heart that I send you my love, hoping that you'll always carry my smile with you, for all we have meant to each other and for whatever the future may hold.”

- Amanda Bradley

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.

Joshua Chamberlain

“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”

- Anais Nin

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

E. M. Forster

“A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”

- Arthur Miller