"And so he did his endless work,' I……" — Martine Leavitt
"And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open his heart to his loneliness and longing and that was beyond bearing."
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Martine Leavitt
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16 Quotes by Martine Leavitt
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These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of…
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If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good…
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I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps…
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Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her…
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...the girl longed for a love that could not be ended by death. From the time she was young, she…
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Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the…
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Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.
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Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath…
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It is life that hurts you not death.
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When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death…
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His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that…
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Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal.
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let…
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