The Last Sky
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The Last Sky
all of it accompanied by a hollow, echoing silence, as though I am in the eye of a hurricane or adrift in outer space
Jonathan Santlofer • The First Day of the Rest of My Life as a Widower
Tant que je vivrai, Marie, je me souviendrai de toi. Et toi aussi, je crois, tu te souviendras de moi. Mais quand nous ne serons plus là, ni toi ni moi, et qu'auront disparu tous ceux qui nous auront connus, qui se souviendra de nous ?
Jean d'ORMESSON • Un Jour je m'en irai sans en avoir tout dit (ROMAN) (French Edition)
In a certain sense, we are always waiting for the great moment of gathering or belonging and it always evades us. We are haunted with a deep sense of absence. There is something missing from our lives. We always expect it to be filled by a definite person, object, or project. We are desperate to fill this emptiness, but the soul tells us, if we lis
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Rather, I remember a scene from Tolstoy’s War and Peace , one I had not thought of in years. It is a scene wherein a character, Prince Andrei, suffers what is perhaps a mortal wound in the historical “Battle of the Three Emperors” in 1805 while fighting on the side of the Russians against his idol Napoleon:
"What is it? Am I falling? Are my legs giv... See more