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“Day alternated with night, the earth and sky taking turns being illuminated.”
― Faithful and Virtuous Night
― Faithful and Virtuous Night
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Sailing Alone around the World
― Sailing Alone around the World
“Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them.”
― Home Fire
― Home Fire
“union of opposites to form human nature was just what human beings told themselves to rationalize away their imperfections. Maybe it was just too neat, and the truth was that evil deeds trumped good ones. It didn’t matter, for example, that Hitler was kind to dogs.”
― The Golden House
― The Golden House
“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
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You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
―
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