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These felt very much like last moments.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elev...

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A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glade...

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There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would no...

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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

All's well that ends well.''Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said.Tamaru formed some short...

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Have you thought of an ending?""Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant.""Oh, that won't do! B...

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The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and...

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Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey

There are only three possible endings —aren't there? — to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness...

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He got up and ran on, pitching himself down the hill, flying through the branches of the firs, leapi...

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He got up and ran on, pitching himself down the hill, flying through the branches of the firs, leapi...

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I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, ...

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John Green (author)Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Everything has to come to an end, sometime.

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L. Frank BaumThe Marvelous Land of Oz

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human...

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Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop.She's realized the re...

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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a boo...

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Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending ...

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Neither father nor son moved, but stayed face to face for hours and hours, neither looking away nor ...

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My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in...

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Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the...

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Salman RushdieHaroun and the Sea of Stories

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

Since when," he asked,"Are the first line and last line of any poemWhere the poem begins and ends?

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn'...

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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe ...

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Arianna HuffingtonThrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being