Hope. . . which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had … - Ian Caldwell

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Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.

Ian Caldwell

Hope. . . which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.

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. . . we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

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I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.

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Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.

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The two hardest things to contemplate in life. . . are failure and age; those are one and the same.

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Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

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