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Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna


Rumer Godden

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Living is crap.
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It is the gateway
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Within its ...
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it...
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Hush my soul to meet the shock
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Hardens and grows cold,
W...
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Then beauty is its own excuse for being:
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Its loveliness increases;
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Let us be the love to find the love
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like a bare singular matchstick.
one
stroke
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Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
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w...
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down on my...
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gasping 'Love'

a foolish fish which tries to draw<...
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one way or another,...
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There's little in water or wine
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"...since I found us."
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"....
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oth...
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And the living nations wait,
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I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brig...
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You are never to worship a living soul,
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Dig a hole in your garden to
put them in
YOKO ONO TRUTH


Whenever you stand up
For your conscience,
Be prepared to be hate...
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Warm a cold heart.
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Might be it was meant to be!!

-Nikita Tak
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For your conscience,
Be prepared to be hated
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in temples and cathedrals.
We don’t find Him
by standing on a <...
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in love with you

the same way
i am in
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then wipe them gently.
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Eve: ...
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Its need to be
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Drips
B...
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Its need to be
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Drips
B...
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That sleeps in me;
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