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There is perhaps something wrong with me, although I always seem to give so much when I love and like, and do not ask for the moon.
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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
― The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
― The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”
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“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
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“Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.”
― Xingu and other Stories
― Xingu and other Stories
“What kind of times are these, when
To talk about trees is almost a crime
Because it implies silence about so many horrors?”
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To talk about trees is almost a crime
Because it implies silence about so many horrors?”
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A group to discuss historical fiction involving sailing ships--think Patrick O'Brian or C.S Forester--and the Golden Age of Sail. Ahoy! Photo: Brig ...more
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