the whole purport of literature. . . is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly … - Thornton Wilder

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I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.

Thornton Wilder

the whole purport of literature. . . is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

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All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

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But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

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I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.

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