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I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This...more

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If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory.

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Fear no more," said Clarissa. Fear no more the heat o' the sun; for the shock of Lady Bruton asking Richard to lunch without her made the moment in wh...more

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Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

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This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.

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Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was ...more

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First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

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Life stand still here.

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What she liked was simply life. "That's what i did it for," she said, speaking aloud to life... Could any man understand what she meant, either, about...more

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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender air and the plant dies, the colour fades. The earth we walk on is a par...more

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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

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For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the grou...more