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Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground,…
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You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the…
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Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am…
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Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one…
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Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may…
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There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility…
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Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of…
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It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.
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There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.…
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I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.
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But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside.…
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We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives...
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If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There…
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Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every…
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He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone…
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--I lifted one foot from the brackish water, and the bunny slippers were soaked and drooped pathetically. Even the fangs seemed robbed…
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But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself…
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The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all.
— Unknown Author
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