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- And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
- I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you…
- He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
- Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape. It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know, Have always known, know that we can't escape,…
- I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
- All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives,
- I work all day, and get half-drunk at night,
- I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.
- Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may…
- In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but…
- Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.
- There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
- I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry…
- Nothing significant was reallysaid, Though all agreed the talk superb....
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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