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"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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"Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone."
"The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts."
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud ."
"They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion."
"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
"You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky."
"The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die."
"But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place."
"The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground."
"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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