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2005-12-10 22:46:22
From: JJ
(San Francisco)
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"Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? ...Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! ...
"Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me... and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill? Is this what sadness is about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?"
- "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink
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"cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet"
The opening lines of an anonymous Latin lyric titled The Vigil of Venus (3rd century A.D.), it translates to:
may he love tomorrow, who has never loved before
and may he who has loved, love tomorrow as well
- "The Magus" by John Fowles
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