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“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?”

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.”

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and…

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“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.”

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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

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“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to…

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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear…

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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

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“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green…

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“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”

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“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary…

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way;…

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“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar ethnic cuisine; your diaspora , from what I understand, is mostly in Southern California, three time zones removed from the national media in New York; and you don't have a recognizable, long-simmering conflict like the one…

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“Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the bed of this seedy hotel room in central London. The sight and smell was sickening - even to a hardened detective like him. Felling the bile rising in his throat again, he hurried out into the dimly lit…

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It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars;…

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Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

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“ “In the South, football is confused with religion, chivalry, the Civil War, and women.” -Diane Roberts, The Quotable South ”

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Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

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You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do…

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“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the…

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I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men , Muskets, Ammunition, Hard Tack, Bacon and Letters from home.

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