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"“In these forests death needs no apology, but has a beauty of its own in advancing through history as the nourishing helpmate of birth in the folds of earth.”" — 7 hours, 12 min ago
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
“He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
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