So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. -Theodore Roethke

 

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.


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What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?

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What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

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