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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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I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is…
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This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have…
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Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make…
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It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last…
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To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what…
— James Salter
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The only thing left to do is forgive and forget. I want to forgive you and I want to forget you.
— Lauren Conrad
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Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.
— Ray Charles
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Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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