He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

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Mots clés life innocence growing-up experience youth loss-of-innocence truths

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the bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past the sun and returned again as trackless and as unremarked as the path of any nameless sisterworld in the ancient dark beyond.

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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.

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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

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On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.

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Mots clés life loneliness desolation

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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

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Mots clés sun earth mother

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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

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Mots clés death suicide

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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

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Mots clés trouble

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The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.

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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstitiion will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

I dont see what that has to do with catchin birds.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos.

That would be a hell of a zoo.

The judge smiled. Yes, he said. Even so.

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