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bent ostentatiously to her work.
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It is existentially, hyperbolically, quintessentially unknowable.
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Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?
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So Elena goes out. Can you see her? Over there, on the path by the fence made of wire and disoriented wooden rails. Now in the shadows of the juniper, now coming into the light. There.
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Eu nunca uso as palavras humanista ou humanitario, pois me parece que ser humano significa ser capaz dos crimes mais hediondos da natureza.
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Noon bells sang out with their usual ignorance of mood, marking out moments of grief and worry, elation and confusion. The bells said that at its core, human life was fundamentally a sort of organic clockwork, while the winds and skylarks that swept against the sound of metronomic iron timekeeping argued for variety, subtlety, epiphany.
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The last light with any real warmth had been at home, long ago, in a place and a time that no longer existed, with people whose names he didn't say even inside his own mind.
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How very like a dream this all is.
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When Sister Saint Aelphaba neither confirmed nor denied this plan, Oatsie began to understand why the payment to take the green maunt away had been more than generous.
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What are we going to do? Such a bad harvest last summer and too little snow now to irrigate the fields come spring ..." "The world is protesting. It feels like a summer cloudburst coming, yet the hymns of the high holidays still ring in our ears. Can the calendar turn inside out? Can a year run backward?"
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With all those stars in the sky, why isn't there enough light for us to see by? We stumble like blinded sheep." "As you can see, it is clouding over. The stars can't pierce that gloom; they just wait it out. That isn't the stars' fault. It is their custom to stay heavenly." "They should come down closer to the earth." "Well, ask them politely."
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history takes a long time to happen.
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After all is said and done," said the Dormouse, "there is nothing to be done. Or said."
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Noon is a disguise of whiteness put on by the eternal Night behind it.
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It's my belief that our lives are stolen from us. Ornamented with pinnate leaves and colored frills, we exist only as a consolation for others. I don't feel fulfilled. Indeed, some days I scarcely feel at all.
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place,
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the use of beauty? I have lived my life surrounded by painters, and I still do not know the answer. But I suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes our lives less miserable so that we might be more kind--well, then, let's have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories. We are a ..
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I rarely trust myself to make statements about truth.
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History crawls along on the peg legs of small individual lives," said Frex, "and at the same time larger eternal forces converge. You can't attend to both arenas at once." "Our child may not have a small life."
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, buy I don't know the way out.
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Against the mutability of dream, the natural laws advocated by our bewigged Enlightenment forebears are powerless. Newton, for instance, insists on gravity and other prohibitions of the physical world, from which (while we are awake) we are never free. But we can fly in dreams.
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Being vulnerable to desolation also arises from being unable to picture a set of choices with which to change your lot in life
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Good gracious, dear, all of life is a spell. You know that.
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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good. Perhaps being jittery helps me pay closer attention.
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You lie, cheat and steal and call it courtesy, cunning and thrift.
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What's the different between a shooting star and a falling house?" "One which is propitious grants delicious wishes, the other which is vicious squishes witches."
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Only, sometimes, in the text of a book here and there, we tap the page with a finger and say, "This is what my lost days were like. Something like this." But even as we turn to the fellow in the bed beside us to say, "Yes, this passage here," whatever it is we recognized has already disguised itself, changed in that split instant. There is no hope that our companion can see what we, just for a moment, saw anew and hailed with a startled, gl..
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Mostly his mind wandered. But it didn't have anywhere special to wander to.
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A fellow needed two names, one for affection and the other for civic duty.
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Luck and grace: an unmatching pair of boots with which to address a long dusty road.
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It doesn't pose or represent the world. It becomes.
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Use your talent at sorcery, don't be used by it.
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You're critical of everyone. Oh, not everyone. Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born
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The person who asks questions like yours always gets to choose the terms,
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I would leave me were I him. I would leave myself if I could.
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I'm not good, I'm just quiet,
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Sera que o diabo ja se esforcou para ser bom de novo ou, se fizer isso, nao e um demonio?
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Quando os tempos sao cruciais, quando o ar esta cheio de crise, aqueles que sao mais parecidos consigo mesmos sao as vitimas.
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She hobbled away into the dark, saying her prayers aloud. "Old saint Nicholas, young saint Mark Keep me safe in the pesky dark Saint Olga of the hight Himalayas Send me a set of cashmere pajamas."
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And so the feast-day of the nativity of the Christ Child approached with its usual panic, uproar, and greed.
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Never underestimate the value of a mother in wartime. She has the most to fight for.
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The question ocasionally invents the answer. (142)
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You're in the finest hands. He's a very capable soldier." "He is an old man with a white beard." "He is a young man inside, and strong."
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The world was a set of alternations, resistance and persistence, writ up in lake and the distant Alpine peaks of eastern Switzerland. In fact, the world was no easier to understand than Bach.
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