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“Survival . . . could only be a social achievement, not an individual accident,” wrote Eugene Weinstock,
“For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.”
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“There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”
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“And still,
Your mouth on my mouth
Is a thought as fresh as
Melting icicles away
With my breath”
― The Anatomy of Being
Your mouth on my mouth
Is a thought as fresh as
Melting icicles away
With my breath”
― The Anatomy of Being
“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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