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The forces of blind life that work across this hilltop are as irresistible as she said they were, they work by a principle more potent than fission. B...more

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wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

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Marian’s eyes absolutely blaze. To meet them is to have a shock of contact as if they were electrically charged. “Now you see? You wondered what was i...more

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I have always said that the way to deal with the pain of other’s is by sympathy, which is suffering with, and that the way to deal with one’s own pain...more

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No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

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[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest...more

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It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go ...more