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“before men could speak they enjoyed confounding another with signs
they enjoyed this as much as a mirror enjoys an image
as much as the evening like a ship enjoys a sapphire grave”
― The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
they enjoyed this as much as a mirror enjoys an image
as much as the evening like a ship enjoys a sapphire grave”
― The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
“people undertake some new task not because of a challenge, but because of the assumed absence of a challenge because the task looks easy…and then, once they are stuck with it, they have willy-nilly to overcome the unsuspected difficulties—and sometimes they even succeed.”
― Development Projects Observed
― Development Projects Observed
“Todo eso que está inútilmente añadido a la pura necesidad, es arte.”
― Los renglones torcidos de Dios
― Los renglones torcidos de Dios
“When grief for fiction’s idle words More real than human life appears, Reflect that life itself’s a dream And do not mock the reader’s tears.”
― The Story of the Stone: The Dreamer Wakes
― The Story of the Stone: The Dreamer Wakes
“…but now, along this high, rocky road, it was the leaves of cherry trees that predominated. From the bridge on, these lay like fallen red flowers. Some wet leaves, already decaying, had faded to a pink that was the color of the dawn. Why should decay take the color of the dawn?”
― Runaway Horses
― Runaway Horses
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