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There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are...

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And that someone would pay. Revenge is a cold bedfellow, Diana had said, but Emma didn't believe tha...

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I nodded, unsure if Ted sounded admiring or angry. 'I waded in but I couldn't find him. I mean, is i...

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The LSD phenomenon, on the other hand, is—to me at least—more interesting. It is an intentionally ac...

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I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and san...

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I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall ...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

Tell her thisAnd more,—That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap ...

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Stephen CraneComplete Poems of Stephen Crane

Nobody wanted your dance,Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your flounderingDrowning life and your ...

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Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

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ThiruvalluvarHoly Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations

My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air f...

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He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: th...

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There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of ...

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Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

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Anatole BroyardKafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir