“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
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“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Sweet Silver Blues
― Sweet Silver Blues
“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
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“Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.”
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