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"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
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"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
"Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant."
"Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result."
"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 magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts."
"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."
"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."
"Time is the subtle thief of youth."
"The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground."
"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."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
"I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether."
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."
"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."
"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."
"His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole.""
"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."
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