"There was after all no mystery in the……" — John Crowley
"There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth."
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20 Quotes by John Crowley
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Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No.…
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The further in you go, the bigger it gets.
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Love is a myth.' 'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is…
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The universe is Time's body.
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It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different;…
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First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo…
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Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.
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She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into…
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God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books…
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Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much.…
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