“Joy’s trick is to supply dry lips with what can cool and slake, leaving them dumbstruck also with an ache nothing can satisfy.”
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What pleases us will never please us again; it will just make us hungrier.
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“And I, too, don’t know toward what undreamt condition inch by inch I go.”
“It’s best when laundry ends up being dry.”
“Because he swings so neatly through the trees, an ape feels natural in the word trapeze.”
“The walls awave with sumac shadow.”