The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
EMILY DICKINSONDoes not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
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