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“I know I have gained Christ and through His blessing I have gained the whole world too, but for what I have lost, for what we have all lost, there is no end to the reckoning. We lost everything.”
― The Winter King
― The Winter King
“Poets are not to blame for how things are.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“Whoso beset him round
With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound;
His strength the more is.”
― The Pilgrim's Progress
With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound;
His strength the more is.”
― The Pilgrim's Progress
“can’t make marriage the be-all and end-all. Because if you do it won’t work. Listen: from the looks of things we’ve got one of the few solid marriages around. But it took work, pussycat. Work.’ Her eyes gleamed with the victory of that work, the necessity for it.”
― Selected Stories
― Selected Stories
“There was certainly much to be said for being at the mercy of the primeval elements, to be swept along by circumstances one could not in any way control, but it was good to return, to feel one's identity expand again, unchecked.”
― The End of All Songs
― The End of All Songs
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