So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all—plus c'est la mme chose, plus a change. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.
John KnowlesAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: american
- Born: September 16, 1926
- Died: November 29, 2001
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Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?
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A man is born gentle and weak; at his death he is hard and stiff. All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life; dry and brittle in death. Stiffness is thus a companion of death; flexibility a companion of life. An army that cannot yield will be defeated. A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. The hard and stiff will be broken; the soft and supple will prevail.
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