"When someone you love dies, and you're not……" — John Irving

"When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part."

— John Irving

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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. — Charles Babbage
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams
In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. — Arthur Bloch
I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that… — Jo Brand
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations… — William J. Brennan
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. — David Byrne
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. — Andrew Carnegie
I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. — Noam Chomsky
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. — A J P Taylor
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away. — Wayne Dyer

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