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• However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Garden, Mind, Importance

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejected eyes. Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Dog, Eye, Doors

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• Wear your boots if you wander today

  Shirley Jackson

  Boots, Today, Ifs

  Shirley Jackson (2014). “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”, p.31, Obelix Books

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• This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Understanding, Inner Peace, Mind

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• The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

  Michael Ondaatje

  Hair, Long, Sorrow

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “In the Skin of a Lion”, p.8, Vintage

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• most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

  Edward Abbey

  Choices, Desert, Done

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Morning, Taken, Feet

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• Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Smart, Grateful, Heart

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• I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will.

  Nick Hornby

  Cat, Doors, Healthy

  Nick Hornby (2005). “High Fidelity”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Prayer, People, Mind

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?

  Thomas Hardy

  Long, Use, Roger

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3482, Delphi Classics

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• At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and the nature of evil and the mystery of death, questions which seemed more important than anything else in the would until a few years passed and some real questions had been dumped into your lap, like how to earn a living, and why people fell in and out of love, and how long you could carry on smoking and then give up without getting lung cancer.

  Mark Haddon

  Love, Teenage, Giving Up

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• I touched my lips to hers again, and this time, it was a very different sort of kiss. It was six years’ worth of kissing, her lips coming to life under mine, tasting of orange and of desire. Her fingers ran through my sideburns and into my hair before linking around my neck, alive and cool on my warm skin. I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. For once in my human life, my mind didn’t wander to compose a song lyric or store the moment for later reflection. For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else. -Sam

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Song, Kissing, Reflection

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• Now don't go wandering off, William," she said with a meaningful glance. "I don't want to lose you in the crowd." Will's jaw set. "I'm getting the oddest feeling that you're enjoying this," he said under his breath. "Nothing odd about it." Feeling unbelievably bold, Tessa chucked him under the chin with the tip of her lace fan. "Simply behave yourself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Meaningful, Feelings, Fans

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

  Joanne Harris

  Eye, Thoughtful, Looks

  Joanne Harris (2009). “The Girl with No Shadow: A Novel”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future.

  Dara Horn

  Children, Memories, Past

  Dara Horn (2015). “The World to Come”, p.280, Penguin UK

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• First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further), than the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them exist as well as emerge. But he also moves them about and he invents others, since the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform, or abandon spatial elements.

  Michel de Certeau

  Wall, Moving, Journey

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.98, Univ of California Press

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• There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.

  Rumi

  Information Flow, Voice, Silence

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.

  Saul Williams

  Moon, Wind, Imagination

  Saul Williams (2009). “, said the shotgun to the head.”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Psychics, Doe, Lost

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• "Don't let go!" he orders. Harper's hand is dry and soothing, while mine is sweaty with fear. We've never held hands before. I think about what it means in the village when boys and girls only a few years older then Harper and me wander around with their hands clasped together. They're always peering dreamily into each other's eyes, sneaking sky kisses...and soon after, there's a wedding.

  Margaret Haddix

  Girl, Letting Go, Mean

  "Palace of Mirrors".

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• Emeth speaking of Aslan, "Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek...And since then, O Kings and Ladies, I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Kings, Long

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• There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Journey, Destiny, Hiking

  "Tigana". Book by Guy Gavriel Kay, 1990.

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• Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics - in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad.

  Susanna Clarke

  Lonely, Play, People

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.707, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While he who walks in love may wander far, Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Blessed, Goal

  Henry van Dyke (2015). “The Story of Other Wise Man”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

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