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These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who…
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If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its…
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I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps you could…
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Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In…
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And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to…
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...the girl longed for a love that could not be ended by death. From the time she was young, she knew that…
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Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while.…
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Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.
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Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life…
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It is life that hurts you not death.
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When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death And when…
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His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he…
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When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by…
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I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up…
— Margarita Engle
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
— Boris Pasternak
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I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our…
— Haruki Murakami
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Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in…
— Luigi Pirandello
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A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words,…
— Anais Nin
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His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he…
— Martine Leavitt
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One word of wisdom is as good as a hundred ordinary words.
— Vikrant Parsai
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