I Believe In Ending Sentences With A Preposition In Order To Give The Ideas A Way Out.
I believe in ending sentences with a preposition in order to give the ideas a way out.
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book
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Not to act in this tragedy, but to live
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Thought and life are as the poles asunder.
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How do you capture someone who was always slipping away?
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And your lips rise from the dead in each of my smiles.
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One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.
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As far as words go, crying is louder and weeping is wetter.
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book
