PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
– Walter Raleigh
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- It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important. – Brandon Sanderson
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- Nobody chooses to evolve. It’s like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what’s happening until they hit, then it’s too late. – Haruki Murakami
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- In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more. – Nora Raleigh Baskin
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