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“When one has nothing left to one but memories, one guards and dusts them with especial care. ”
― The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories
― The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories
“Nothing was true but the fatigue of life and the eternal disappointment.”
― This Sweet Sickness
― This Sweet Sickness
“Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.”
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“The young have aspirations that never comes to pass,the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations - that is why one should be patient with them. But one never is.”
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