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"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
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"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."
"The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts."
"Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result."
"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."
"We only pass everything by like a transposition of air."
"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
"You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky."
"The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground."
"Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow."
"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."
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"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."
"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."
"I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee."
"For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour."
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