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The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks...more

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He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill ...more

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The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

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Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing in his dream state. He wa...more

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Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

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[B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same th...more

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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

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...women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ...

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I reckon if there’s ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with His mind at rest, it would be Cora. And I reckon sh...more

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I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

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But this time as soon as he moved she began to fade. He stopped at once, not breathing again, motionless, willing his eyes to see that she had stopped...more

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The American really loves nothing but his automobile: not his wife his child nor his country nor even his bank-account first (in fact he doesn't reall...more

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What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the...more

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And George Farr had the town, the earth, the world to himself and his sorrow. Music came faint as a troubling rumor beneath the spring night, sweetene...more