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but deprecation always waits to be disputed, and, if the disputation does not come, becomes petulance.
but sooner or later, the new lovers would do little more than call to mind the old, and one would be forced to wander, lost, in that reflective maze of endless comparison, forever disappointed, forever turning back.
a nice little line i thought
For the planets have changed places against the wheeling canvas of the stars. The Sun has advanced one-twelfth along the tilted wheel of her ecliptic path, and with that motion comes a new world order, a new perspective on the whole. With the Sun in Capricorn we were reserved, exacting, and lofty in our distance. When we looked upon Man, we sought to fix him: we mourned his failures and measured his gifts. We could not imagine what he might have been, had he been tempted to betray his very nature—or had he betrayed himself without temptation, better still. But there is no truth except truth in
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hell of a statement on the passage of time and how we flow in it
The only songs they knew were jigs and hornpipes,
a jig and a HORNPIPE!!? my favorite hardshoe dance iykyk
“There are many things that are yet arcane to me, Mrs. Wells, and I hope that I am a curious man; if I am interested in those truths that are yet unknown, it is only so that they might, in time, be made known—or, to put it more plainly, so that in time, I might come to know them.”
the art of not yucking someone's yum
Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.” He grinned at her, quickly, and Anna smiled back. “Especially the company of one other soul,” he added, turning back to the sea. “It’s dreadful to feel alone and really be alone.
crying in the club
“Give us a tale, and spin it out, so we forget about our feet, and we don’t notice that we’re walking.”
leave it to the words of an Irishman to make my heart sing
