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“The person who loves you has picked you out of the great mass of uncreated clay which is humanity to make something out of, and the poor lumpish clay which is you wants to find out what it has been made into. But at the same time, you, in the act of loving somebody, become real, cease to be part of the continuum of that uncreated clay and get the breath of life in you and rise up.”

“Were we happy tonight because we were happy or because once, a long time back, we had been happy?”

“For nothing is lost, nothing is ever lost. There is always the clue, the canceled check, the smear of lipstick, the footprint in the canna bed…And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and out of the shadow their eyes implore us.”

“Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”