Oh! death will find me long before I tire
Of watching you.
-Rupert Brooke, Sonnet
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He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead.
-Albert Einstein,
Einstein, His Life and Times
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Only the desert has a fascination -
to ride alone -
in the sun in the forever unpossessed country -
away from man.
That is a great temptation...
-D. H. Lawrence,
The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
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What are the wild waves saying,
Sister, the whole day long,
That ever amid our playing
I hear but their low lone song?
-J. E. Carpenter,
What Are the Wild Waves Saying
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That undefined and mingled hum,
Voice of the desert never dumb!
-James Hogg,
Verses to Lady Anne Scott
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Listen, little Elia:
draw your chair up close to the edge of
the precipice and I'll tell you a story.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
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Ca ira. (It will go its own way.)
-Benjamin Franklin,
Said about the American Revolution
while in Paris 1776-1777
