April 2012
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“Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That’s all we...”
– -W. B. Yeats, “A Drinking Song”
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“…and she thought, now it will rain, and it never did, and she thought, now he...”
– -Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
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“Seen from the viewpoint of contemplation, it does not matter what disturbs the...”
– -Hannah Arendt, “Labor, Work, Action” via The Portable Hannah Arendt
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“People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.”
– -James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
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“To see a door close and know that the very last person has gone out, that is a...”
– -Edna O’Brien, Night
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“The sea smelled like a sail whose billows had caught up water, salt, and a cold...”
– -Patrick Süskind, Perfume
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“We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all...”
– -E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
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“I slept little and occasionally fainted. To love a woman and the hat she wears,...”
– -Viktor Shklovsky, Third Factory 