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"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."
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"You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them."
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"Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing but grief. She could feel herself trying to push back time, but even the best witchcraft could not do that."
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"It had been in their hands then; he was quite sure of it. But kids lose everything, kids have slippery fingers and holes in their pockets and they lose everything."
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"I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince myself that he and I would be together again. I already knew too many dead people. I knew that time would now pass for me differently then it would for him- that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter."
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"And too soon Marred are those so early Made."
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"Our world ends and some people never understand how much we really loved them."
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"To waste time is to lose life."
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"More. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again..........anything."
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"Let me talk to my mother. She is listening from above."
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"I straightened up and looked out the plane window at the dark clouds hanging over the North Sea, thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again."
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"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."
Existence
"Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than Sinbad's haunts or Ariosto's vast geographies.For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end."
Literature
"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."
Man
"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."
Religion
"Life itself is a quotation."
Life
"We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods."
Mythology
"He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite."
Philosophy
"It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death."
Mortality
"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
Reading
"So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature."
Art
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