He stands on the stone table and selects a large fig, bites into the skin, then opens it with his fingers. He thinks of a woman's sex, ancient and eternal, no young girl would have such gritty sweetness. Was this not perhaps the fruit that got Adam and Eve thrown out of Eden? Who would want to give up an unblemished state of immortality for the insipid apple? Achmat Dangor
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
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Mitch Albom
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
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Antonio Porchia
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
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H. Rider Haggard
... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Susan Ertz
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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He stands on the stone table and selects a large fig, bites into the skin, then opens it with his fingers. He thinks of a woman's sex, ancient and eternal, no young girl would have such gritty sweetness. Was this not perhaps the fruit that...
