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"The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts."
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"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."

"The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face."

"You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky."

"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."

"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."

"The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground."

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

"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

"Time is the subtle thief of youth."

"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."
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