“the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.”
― The Bridge of San Luis Rey
― The Bridge of San Luis Rey
“Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.”
― The Bridge of San Luis Rey
― The Bridge of San Luis Rey
“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
― The Bridge of San Luis Rey
― The Bridge of San Luis Rey
“Many who have spent a lifetime can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.”
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“Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.”
― The Bridge of San Luis Rey
― The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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