“The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”
— Arthur Golden, book Memoirs of a Geisha
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