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In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school—...

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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

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The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

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It is like any other work of art. It is and never can be changed. Behind everything there is always The unknown unwanted life.

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But be, as you have been, my happiness...

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I am all for the short and merry life.

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Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

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I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.

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Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less.

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The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

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If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

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The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

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I come like Water, and like Wind I go.

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There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

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Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.

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Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.

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Taste is the feminine of genius.

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Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?

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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Where under crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help for it As impotently moves as you or I.

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A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

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