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Cose che per qualcuno sono di nessuna importanza, per altri possono essere terribili come la morte.

Provammo un senso di disorientamento, la stessa mancanza di sincronia tra suono e luce quando c'è un tuono.

E' notte nelle strade. Mentre aspettiamo al semaforo è bello vedere la gente che passa davanti al parabrezza, impiegati, donne, giovani, vecchi, brillare alla luce dei fari. E' l'ora in cui, sotto la cupola fredda e silenziosa della notte, tutti, avvolti in maglioni e cappotti, sono diretti verso un posto caldo, chissà dove.

Theirs is a civilization of deprivation; ours of finely balanced satisfaction ever teetering on the brink of excess.

rainbows apologizing for angry skies

How could he embrace the bleak and endless night when he had finally learned to love the sun?

There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.

This is good, and all good things cast shadows.

Two people were swimming in the sea One was alive and the other dead. See.

She came to a little wrecked pleasure-steamer, which had become embedded in the mud several summers ago and which no one had bothered to remove. It had been a vulgar, tubby little boat when it used to steam through the water with its handful of holiday-makers, giving shrill whistles at every bend and causing a wash that disturbed the fishermen as they sat peacefully on the banks; but, now it lay sideways in the mud with its gaudy paint all bleached, it was almost beautiful.

I dreaded going to the farm, but when I arrived there, it was very much better than I expected. Things one dreads usually are: it's only the things we look forward to that go all wrong.

What was it they said about the difference between a lawyer and a bucket of crap being the bucket?

No, Jack Ramsey didn't look like a spa person. He lifted weights. Tom couldn't imagine him in an aerobics class, much less wrapped in seaweed.

put his hands through her hair when he kissed her. Now it wasn't honey blond, it was just hair, messy, in-need-of-a-wash, bed-head hair. It matched the rest of her, the tired lines in her forehead, the dark shadows under her eyes, the paleness in her cheeks.

The diamond cannot love the flower, for the flower lives only a day, then fades and dies. You are a diamond now." " The flower dies," Jenny said softly, "having lived. The diamond will never do either.

Contradictory conditions are always present. Evidence

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

was compared by Dante to both a slave and a brothel.

What then is Error? It is nothing per se. It is the opposition of one relative truth against another to the exclusion of the latter.

Your case against me is so very clearly stated I plead no contest, I just turn and shrug I've come to figure all importance overestimated You must mean water when you beg for blood

Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

What is the difference between a fox and a pig? About five drinks.

Shall I compare thee to a blue veined cheese thou art more moldy and more curdly blue

Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.