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"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."
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"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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"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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"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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"The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground."
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"Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result."
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"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."
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"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud ."
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"We only pass everything by like a transposition of air."
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"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."
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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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"An answer is always a form of death."
Death
"That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects."
Relationship
"Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be."
Being
"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
Love
"Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man."
Life
"I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me."
Society
"In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love."
Sensitivity
"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."
Life
"Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped."
Romance
"Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?"
Art
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