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And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the… — Edith Wharton
I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where thereâ€™s a brawl and seductions and people… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the… — Amy Tan
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city… — Robert Frost
I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth… — Katherine Hannigan
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposedâ€”if all records told the same taleâ€”then the lie passed into history and became truth.… — George Orwell
He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the… — Epicurus
The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths,… — E. M. Forster
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though.… — Barbara Kingsolver
The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but… — Joyce Carol Oates
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… — Jorge Luis Borges
Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people… — Douglas Coupland
Life was what happened when all the what-ifâ€™s didnâ€™t, when what you dreamed or hoped or â€“ in this case â€“ feared might come to… — Jodi Picoult
What is perceptible to oneâ€™s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of… — Robert Musil
This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, 'thus… — E. Nesbit
Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed. — Miranda July
The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by — Susanna Clarke
Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships… — J.R.R. Tolkien
And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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