Ruta Skendeliene

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07/31/202654 Free verse
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07/22/2026163 Free verse
07/21/202683 Free verse
03/01/2026336 Free verse
02/04/2021682 Rhyme
03/08/2020769 Free verse
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02/27/2020817 Free verse
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12/17/2019708 Free verse
12/15/2019508 Free verse
12/14/2019561 Free verse
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12/12/2019927 Free verse
12/10/20191015 Free verse
10/05/2018550 Free verse
08/25/20181251 Ballad
07/14/2018636 Ballad
07/13/2018617 Dramatic Monologue
07/12/2018475 Ballad
10/08/2017892 Free verse
10/06/2017813 Free verse
04/28/2017811 Free verse
04/28/20171097 Free verse
04/28/2017567 Free verse
09/23/20161805 Free verse
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07/22/20163002 Bio
07/17/2016986 Sonnet
07/17/2016676 ABC
05/10/2016813 ABC
05/10/2016605 ABC
05/10/2016657 ABC
04/28/2016864 ABC
04/28/20161283 Free verse
04/11/20162618 Ballad
03/25/20161429 Ballad
03/25/20161614 Ballad
03/25/20161769 Ballad
03/18/20161238 Ballad
03/16/2016897 ABC
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03/15/20161050 ABC
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03/15/2016949 ABC
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03/14/20161067 ABC
02/18/2016841 ABC
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Quotes

Quote Left Flirting is a cheap currency. Those who don't have character, substance, or real value equivalent to solid gold use flirting as a method to mask their own emptiness in exchange for goods they can get without paying the real price. Quote Right
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Quote Left I had to spend fifty years of my life to understand that giving is much more fun than receiving. Quote Right
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Quote Left time is the only thing we can be sure about, it flows affecting us in its own way, we are born, we grow up, we mature, we get old and we die. Times keep flowing by only in one direction and nobody could explain why it doesn't succumb to the laws of physics and flow in both directions. Quote Right
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Quote Left if you didn't find love, don't be upset. at least you tried. Quote Right
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Quote Left keep searching for meaning even if there is no one. Search itself makes it meaningful. Quote Right
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Quote Left There are two categories of old people. Those who got old because of what time did to them. And those who got old because of what they did with time. First just got old. Second who spent their time trying to learn things, to understand the world, looked for meaning and did things that they considered meaningful got old too but they took advantage of time in transcendental way and bent it. They learned something and they understood that the knowledge has eternal power. Quote Right
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Quote Left People who want to die young because they are terrified of growing old, are missing the main purpose of life: to get wise and knowledgeable. Experience transformed into knowledge and understanding is the utmost treasure and a gift that we can acquire if we focus our life toward meaningfulness. Quote Right
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Quote Left Beware of people who blindly follow the rules. These are the most dangerous people who believe they do good things while being ardent servants of the system. Most rules are created to limit and enslave people, while actually protecting the system not the people. Quote Right
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Quote Left Time is sand in your hands. No matter how hard you try to hold it, it will melt away. Quote Right
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Quote Left I think therefore I am till I start feeling hungry....then existential realization dawns on me that eating is much more basic and I eat therefore I am is the correct definition of being! Quote Right
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Quote Left Knowledge is a genie Once let out it cant be put back in to the bottle Quote Right
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Quote Left bad poetry just like bad food screws your digestion Quote Right
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Quote Left Be nice to strangers and the world will return the favor. Quote Right
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