"There is no complete life. There are only……" — James Salter
"There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams..."
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63 Quotes by James Salter
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Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving…
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You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped…
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Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only?…
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Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which…
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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…
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There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have…
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Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the…
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It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.
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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…
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We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives...
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It's just that it's hard to believe in greatness...
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