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Jewelry designer ( who has also been know to teach, do theatre tech, run art galleries, start art associations, and generally be a rabble rouser!)
Goth/dyke
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"I expect you to know your mind, speak it confidently, defend it competently and willingly admit when you are wrong
What else can one expect from a person?" -Gothtique
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"Music is the ONE thing they can never take from you!" - Gothtique
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"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of
doubtful sanity." -Robert Frost
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“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
-Dr. Seuss
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"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." -Franz Kafka
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"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known
toward what is arcane and concealed."
--Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
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"The ocean has no idea that it is "big" or "deep", or any other adjective; it only knows itself to be trapped between two shores."
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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Kahlil Gibran "On Joy and Sorrow" The Prophet

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"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen."
-- Lady Chatterly's Lover, D.H Lawrence.

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Man's sorrow is a nobleness, I trust,
Untouchable by either earth or hell,
I know to weave my mystic crown I must
Tax all the times, the universe as well.

But treasure lost from old Palmyra's wealh
The unknown metals, pearls out of the sea,
Can't equal , though you mounted them yourself,
This diadem of dazzling clarity,

Since it is perfect luminosity,
Drawn from the holy hearth of primal rays,
Of which men's eyes, for all their majesty,
Are only mournful mirrors, dark and crazed.

Charles Baudelaire
The Flowers of Evil

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The Pearl
Kahlil Gibran

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, “I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress.
And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, “Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without.”
At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, “Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty.”

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Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care
For people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way
Of caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure
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"I want to live in a world where a chicken can cross the road without it's motives being questioned!"
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
-Douglas Adams
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