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«I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...»
Author: Annie Dillard
(Author)
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«Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run»
«It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.»
Author: Francis J. Grimke
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«Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
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lighthouse, lighthouses, philosophic, shores, strew, strewed, strewn, strews, The Lighthouse, wreck
«The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life -and one is as good as the other.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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«A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Words
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inch, in trouble, railroad, railroads, railroad track, rolled into one, rolling, smooth, switch on, track, wreck