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- Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
- Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
- The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Tempest, Act IV, sc. 1
- O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
- Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
- Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
- All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, sc. 2
- But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream
- The moon, like to a silver bow, new-bent in heaven.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
- Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal me awhile from mine own company.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, sc. 2
- Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
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