“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?”
― Out of the Silent Planet
― Out of the Silent Planet
“And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?”
― Out of the Silent Planet
― Out of the Silent Planet
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.”
― Out of the Silent Planet
― Out of the Silent Planet
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