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“Formal writing does not mean gratuitously fancy writing; it means clear, clean, maximally considerate writing.”
― David Foster Wallace, Both Flesh and Not: Essays

“The snow is coming," she said. "Soon it will be snow time. Together then as in other snow times. Drinking busthead 'round the fire. Truth is a locked room that we knock the lock off from time to time, and then board up again. Tomorrow you will hurt me, and I will inform you that you have done so, and so on and so on. To hell with it. Come, viridian friend, come and sup with me.”
― Donald Barthelme, Amateurs

“I did not yet love, and I loved to love; I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“The nature of finite things as such is to have the seed of passing away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Science of Logic