I never saw the tide come in,
I only saw the waves
- The Big Moon, Waves
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I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care
- Billy Bragg, A New England
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As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared the future. He would give this reply:
“Mr. Secretary-General, it is the past which scares the bejesus out of me.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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Saints and Martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
- The Mill On The Floss, George Eliot
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So I believe in a universe that doesn't care and people who do.
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Hope struck the Bar and sunk, followed by the stranding of the Friendship
- Seashaken Houses, Tom Nancollas
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Oh well. I'm still here for now and I'll keep going until I'm not.
What a year,
What an age,
What a generation that will survive it.
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We are born and die as the stars are born and die, both individually and collectively. This is our reality. Life is precious to us because it is ephemeral.
- Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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Sick with a wild terror of dying, and yet indifferent to life itself.
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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She feels stars in her fingers and tastes moonbeams on her tongue.
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I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.
- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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'If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?'
- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?
- Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
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Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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