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“Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.”

Littles Said Two Ends Past Illusion Rivers Weight Deeper Bored Islands Only Time Planners Devouring Strivers

Author:Roberto Bolano

“How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it two when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.”

Source: The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

“Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.”

Knows Two Wanted Young Rivers Twenties Tales Bridges Towers Twenty Two Thames

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.”

Men Years Children Two Stories Running Lying Secret Wife Rivers Army University Grandmother Tyrants Grandfather Tigers My Grandmother My Grandfather Great Love Surgeons Deathless

Book:The Tiger's Wife

Source: The Tiger's Wife

“The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.”

Firsts Has Beens Two Sometimes Lasts Economy Wonderful Duty Rain Garden Rivers Foundation Firsts And Lasts

Author:Wendell Berry

“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads. He is the Passenger par excellence: that is, the prisoner of the passage. And the land he will come to is unknown—as is, once he disembarks, the land from which he comes. He has his truth and his homeland only in that fruitless expanse between two countries that cannot belong to him.”

Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.”

“Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.”

World Long Two Able Fate Teaching Youth Duty Mountain Concepts Rivers Mere Patterns Innocent Remembered Fearful

Author:Robert Jordan

“Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.”

World Two Running Time Progress Creation Promise Aspect Rivers Seasons Chaos Circles Clock Instant Cycles Meaningless Arrows Succession

Book:The Dispossessed

Source: The Dispossessed

“The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.”

Years Two States Water Millions Rain Rivers South Accomplish Miles Thirty Carrie Mexico Ecology Mud Transport Provinces Mississippi Deposits Illinois Delta Mississippi River Gulf Of Mexico

Author:Charles Kuralt

“Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of let-go. Those two small, simple words 'let', 'go', define the very spirit of sannyas. Then one can say 'Let thy kingdom come, thy will be done.' Then one withdraws one's will, and the moment you withdraw your will your life becomes immensely rich. Suddenly the whole is with you, and we can be victorious only when the whole is with us.”

Mean Art Two Done Whole Moments Spirit Fighting Simple Rich Letting Go Rivers Kingdoms Allowing Dropping Simple Words Kingdom Come Thy Will Be Done Small Simple

Author:Rajneesh

“I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.”

Years Firsts Two Challenges Cities Saws First Time Years Ago Rivers Hills Rising Cliffs Rise Above Mist Lavender

Author:Theodore White

“In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense, they were the first American irrigators of any significance. And their knowledge about the art of applying water to land has spread throughout the world.”

World Years Firsts Art Two Water Land Rain Rivers Gold Spread California Lakes Two Years Significance Valleys Salt Greedy Utah

Author:Stuart Campbell

“The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.”

Men Wells Doe Two Running Fall Social Grows Water Taken Growing Plans Failing Habit Lows Rain Rivers Thirds Wings Population Regions Equity Decree Vapour Growing Things

Author:A. P. Herbert

“Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements of its innards. The external actions are strong winds, rains, river currents, sea waves, ice, forest fires, floods; there is only one internal force-earthquake.”

Way Two Body Action Science Strong Force Secret Fire Sea Movement Wind Rain Rivers Wave Currents Forests Ice Internals Flood Two Ways Earthquakes Geology Forest Fires Strong Winds

Author:Mikhail Lomonosov

“The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'”

“A long time ago, there were lovers that lived on the opposite ends of a river. They promised to meet when the camellia flowers bloomed. But it rained so much the boat couldn't cross the river. So the two couldn't meet, even though the camellia flowers had all bloomed. Lets meet again. Before the camellia flowers wilt.”

Long Two Ends Flower Lovers Drama Long Time Rivers Crosses Opposites Let Me Boat Long Time Ago Blooming Flower Camellias

Author:John the Apostle

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