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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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"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."
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"Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result."
"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."
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