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Look for the little loves. Find and shape the little bitternesses.

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The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Time was really done, there was nothing for it but th...more

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Montag shook his head. He looked at a blank wall. The girl's face was there, really quite beautiful in memory: astonishing, in fact. She had a very th...more

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And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and time. The sun and time and burning. Burnin...more

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Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.

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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

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Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

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Bet I know something else you don't. There's dew on the grass in the morning.'He suddenly couldn't remember if he had known this or not, and it made h...more

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Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man ...more

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Hello!" He said hello and then said, "What are you up to now?" "I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. "I don't think I'd like th...more

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He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? Peopl...more

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The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny...more

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How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we c...more

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I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all o...more

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We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.