They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked higher than the pyramids; they had killed themselves over the failure to find...
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Jeffrey Eugenides
The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.
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Neil Gaiman
If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game;...
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Milan Kundera
When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.
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Catherynne M. Valente
I have fallen in love with the world And I am aware that I have chosenthe most dangerous lover of them all.
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Rod McKuen
More Quotes By Honore De Balzac
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.
