“It is a common trick of Nature – and a profoundly
significant one – that, just when despair is deepest,
she waves a wand before the weary eyes and does
her best to waken an impossible hope.”
― The Listener and Other Stories
significant one – that, just when despair is deepest,
she waves a wand before the weary eyes and does
her best to waken an impossible hope.”
― The Listener and Other Stories
“Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead, evoking from some the sharpest, shrillest notes, from others the low, grave chords that throb recurrent like the slow beating of a distant drum. Some natures it startles; some it stupefies. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, stinging all the sensibilities to a keener life; to another as the blow of a bludgeon which, in crushing, benumbs.”
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