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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

“We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.”

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Book:Infants of the spring: a novel

Source: Infants of the spring: a novel

“Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.”

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Book:There is Confusion

Source: There is Confusion

“No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

Source: Garden of Eden

“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

Source: Death in the Afternoon