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In the region where I was born, we always say that during a good meal one is not thirsty but 'hungry' for wine.
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It was on that road and at that hour that I first became aware of my own self, experienced an inexpressible state of grace, and felt one with the first breath of air that stirred, the first bird, and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round.
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It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
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How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with new-born vigor.
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[Sleep is]... that provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day.
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Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.
Alice Cary
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January 28, 1873
Died:
August 3, 1954
(aged 81)
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