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Toni Morrison quote: "It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and..."
It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds. Toni Morrison
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings..."
And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. J. R. R. Tolkien
And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes--you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Please could I say one word?" was the question three times repeated before a rough head bobbed out from the grotto of books in which Mac usually sat. "Did anyone speak?" he asked, blinking in the flood of sunshine that entered with Rose. Louisa May Alcott
Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs. Robert A. Heinlein
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects... Stan Brakhage
Rumi quote: "Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face,..."
Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear. Rumi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is..."
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit. Jodi Picoult
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was happening outside? When I saw an external object, my awareness that I was seeing it would remain between me and it, lining it with a thin spiritual border that prevented me from ever directly touching its substance; it would volatize in some way before I could make contact with it, just as an incandescent body brought near a wet object never touches its moisture... Marcel Proust
Julian Barnes quote: "How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?"
How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns? Julian Barnes
The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known. Yoshida Kenko
William S. Burroughs quote: "I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something..."
I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go. William S. Burroughs
It was as if these depths, constantly bridged over by a structure that was firm enough in spite of its lightness and of its occasional oscillation in the somewhat vertiginous air, invited on occasion, in the interest of their nerves, a dropping of the plummet and a measurement of the abyss. A difference had been made moreover, once for all, by the fact that she had, all the while, not appeared to feel the need of rebutting his charge of an idea within her that she didn't dare express, uttered... Henry James
Let us cross the river to the other side and rest beneath the shade of the trees. [Stonwall Jackson just before passing into eternity in 1863.] Stonewall Jackson

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