All that we love deeply
becomes a part of us.
~Helen Keller


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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer,
the top of the live-long year,
like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel
when it pauses in its turning.
The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn,
but the first week of August is motionless, and hot.
It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns
and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone.
~Natalie Babbitt

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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something,
only out of having more of it than the next man...
It is the comparison that makes you proud:
the pleasure of being above the rest.
Once the element of competition is gone,
pride is gone.

C.S. Lewis

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“Today everything exists
to end in a photograph.”
- Susan Sontag

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Color!
What a deep and mysterious language,
the language of dreams.
~Paul Gauguin

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