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"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."

"The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die."

"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."

"Man is dust. Rue is rain. Life is mud."
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"One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen."


"I know where I came from-but where did all you zombies come from?I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once-and you all went away.So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light.You aren't really there at all. There isn't anybody but me-Jane-here alone in the dark.I miss you dreadfully!"


"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."


"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."
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