"Now we wake up with our memoryand fix our gazes on that which was;whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us,sits silently beside us with loosened hair."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"... It was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct..."
Anonymous
"Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her."
Isaac Asimov
"After all, I was dressed in linen and so retained a certain capacity for nonchalance."
Joanna Ruocco
"Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
Vladimir Nabokov
"There's a place for farts, and there's a place for sharts."
J.E. Haldeman
"A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England."
Rudyard Kipling
"When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins."
Adrianne Lee
"You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat."
Kelli Jae Baeli
"I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep."
Pierre Beaumarchais
"I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return."
Yo-Yo Ma
"My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people."
Charles Bukowski
"Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist."
but the past existed!
"Why come back to this empty house, and this Manila with a strange face; the one I never knew? All those lonely islands. They will keep afloat without me."
V.J. Campilan
"So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end."
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