They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
EMILY DICKINSONTo live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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I tasted life.
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Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
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My friends are my estate.
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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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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I have an appetite for silence.
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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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