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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.