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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

I love autumn", Emily said to me. "It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

I sat wondering: Why is there always this deep shade of melancholy over the fields arid river banks,...

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It was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk whe...

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It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Ti...

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Harmony makes small things grow. Lack of it makes big things decay.

What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-co...

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Thomas MannDeath in Venice and Other Tales

Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of...

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As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and gr...

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Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul!

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

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Charles BukowskiPlay the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

Franz said 'Your picture, Viki, suggests that sense of breaking-up we feel in the modern world. Fami...

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