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Three Sons for the Kaiser by Hazel Strouts was a fascinating read about the only three sones of a couple, all of whom died in the First World War. The story was made more touching as the author was the granddaughter of the eldest son. Ms. Strouts pre
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and I wonder if that’s part of the reason I don’t miss him, that everything we ever said to each other was in languages I’m starting to forget. Maybe the thrill of the relationship was the languages, that everything was heightened for me
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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
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with your one wild and precious life?”
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“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
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“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
― Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
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