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“It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city like alluvium wanders the river banks. I knew every kind of joy, ascents of every hue. Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.”

Literature Roman Payne Incipit Rooftop Soliloquy

Book:Rooftop Soliloquy

Source: Rooftop Soliloquy

“The Love of Europa: She called herself Europa. She was wild in her wandering, a drop of free water. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself Europa, and her god was Beauty.”

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Book:The Love of Europa: Limited Time Edition

Source: The Love of Europa: Limited Time Edition

“I care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt.”

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Author:Roman Payne

“The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.”

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Book:Hope and Despair

Source: Hope and Despair

“I just wish moments weren’t so fleeting!' Isaac called to the man on the roof, 'They pass so quickly!' 'Fleeting?!' responded the tilling man, 'Moments? They pass quickly?! . . . Why, once a man is finished growing, he still has twenty years of youth. After that, he has twenty years of middle age. Then, unless misfortune strikes, nature gives him twenty thoughtful years of old age. Why do you call that quickly?' And with that, the tilling man wiped his sweaty brow and continued tilling; and the dejected Isaac continued wandering. 'Stupid fool!' Isaac muttered quietly to himself as soon as he was far enough away not to be heard.”

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Book:Hope and Despair

Source: Hope and Despair

“She wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle of cloth.”

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Book:Hope and Despair

Source: Hope and Despair

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”

Source: The Wanderess

“The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before bed admired then forgotten.”

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Author:Roman Payne