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They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or s...

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It seems to me that our lives are consumed by countless wasting years, but only a few shining moment...

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So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they ...

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Seulement la terre qui obéit,sait bien qu'elle tourne en rond,tandis que nous vers l'infininous préc...

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Rainer Maria RilkeThe Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English ...

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Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, w...

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Anthony PowellA Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out.

For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Monsters and the Critics and other essays

He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.