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“Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.”
Jan Myrdal
“Everybody wake up, if you're living with your eyes closed.”
Dave Matthews Band
“When two close kindred meetWhat better than call a dance?”
William Butler Yeats
“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”
Cesare Pavese
“Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close;And let us all to meditation.”
William Shakespeare
“About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.”
Will Rogers
“Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never let her go again. He could never let her head go away from the close clutch of his arm. He wanted to remain like that for ever, with his heart hurting him in a pain that was also life to him.”
D.H. Lawrence
“An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.”
Bob Nelson
“But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.”
John Gay
“I was walking by a drycleaner at 3a.m. and there was a sign that said Sorry, we're closed. You don't have to be sorry. It's 3a.m. and your a drycleaner. It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open. I'm not gonna come by at 10 and say, hey I was here at 3a.m and you guys were closed. Someone owes me an apology.”
Mitch Hedberg