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• A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. —Charles Peguy, poet and essayist (1873-1914)

• Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. —Victor Hugo

• Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. —Michel de Montaigne

• When one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning. — Lord Chesterfield

Watching raspberries march across the property line, into the back alley where the neighbours sample the fruits, enjoy the sweetness of the sun captured in the juice. Who could kill a raspberry cane? Let the mint free of its container, let it creep across the yard, let it overtake your senses with pungency, with bite. Take it upon your tongue like a word. Touch with your tongue, forbidden. To eat is not to consume. To consume is to have again. It is only farewell, not goodbye. —Leslie