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Fall Quotes by William Faulkner
- How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset…
- Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering,…
- ...only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while...
- . . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s…
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- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
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- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. — Charles Babbage
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- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
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