"i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin."
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"Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake."
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"To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant."
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"Love hath made thee a tame snake"
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"There's a snake hidden in the grass."
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"When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them."
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"I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him."
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"I'm one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I'm not looking for attention."
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"Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out."
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"Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you."
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"I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake."
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"Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)"
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"Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough."
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"There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes."
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"What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent."
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"I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow."
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"In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass."
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"Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes."
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"We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that."
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"Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake."
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