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"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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"He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped."

"Brief as the lightning in the collied night;That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,And ere a man hath power to say "Behold!"The jaws of darkness do devour it up.So quick bright things come to confusion."

"Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant."

"Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow."

"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."

"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."

"We only pass everything by like a transposition of air."

"The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts."

"The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die."

"From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star."
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"If you can walk you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
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