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Laurus
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Each of us repeats Adam’s journey and acknowledges, with the loss of innocence, that he is mortal. Weep and pray, O Arseny. And do not fear death, for death is not just the bitterness of parting. It is also the joy of liberation.
“Time is probably no more unkind to sporting characters than it is to other people, but physical decay unsustained by respectability is somehow more noticeable.”
― The Folded Leaf
― The Folded Leaf
“On the desk, surrounded by books and papers, was a blue bowl filled with ridiculous, long-stemmed plants grown all out of proportion and fourteen or fifteen inches tall. The old age of flowers (these were violets, mostly) is as strange and as pathetic as the old age of people.”
― The Folded Leaf
― The Folded Leaf
“Music never comes unbidden to the mind. It is a beautiful private language, independent of words, made up of association and memory. And no one listens to it.”
― The Folded Leaf
― The Folded Leaf
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