I dwell in possibility.
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Quotes by Emily Dickinson
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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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.
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
The brain is wider than the sky.
My friends are my estate.
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Where thou art, that is home.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
For love is immortality.
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