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“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
“I have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring?”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
“But this too is true: stories can save us.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“All the same that one day should follow another; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; that one should wake up in the morning; see the sky; walk in the park...then these roses; it was enough. After that, how unbelievable death was! -- that it must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“People unable to bear the martyrdom [...] unintelligently jump off the path, and choose instead, conveniently enough, the world’s admiration of their proficiency. The true knight of faith is a witness, never a teacher, and in this lies the deep humanity in him which is more worth than this foolish concern for others’ weal and woe which is honoured under the name of sympathy, but which is really nothing but vanity.”
― Fear and Trembling
― Fear and Trembling
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