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Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the — Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to sile — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered by it. — Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead — I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Dora was stunned by this information. She stopped. 'Do you mean' she said, 'that they're completely imprisoned in there? — Iris Murdoch
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a — Georges Rodenbach, The Bells of Bruges
I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock — Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to be some great penan — Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any shutter left open to — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female goldfinch suddenly — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fixed tension between — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he was in full view of — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coasts the sea tides woul — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the valley like a waterfall, — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. They should train the — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving through light, “an inf — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It was a small dream ab — Annie Dillard
Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the rings of Saturn are. — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any more than the planet is — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know. — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar