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“Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?”
― Love in the Ruins
― Love in the Ruins
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Lolly Willowes
― Lolly Willowes
“The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”
― The Song of the Lark
― The Song of the Lark
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