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Tag Archives: Quotes about Life
“For poems are like rainbows: they escape you quickly.”
—Langston Hughes, The Big Sea
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Death Poems, Death Quotes, Langston Hughes, Life, Memorial Sayings, poems, Quotes about Life, Rainbow, The Big Sea
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“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
- Simone de Beauvoir
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Death Saying, Hurt, Kurt Vonnegut, Quotes, Quotes about Life, SevenPonds, Slaughterhouse-Five
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“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
