"the bells of glory that announced to..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end
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“Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.”
“Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.”
“Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.”
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“In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. -Sonnet 73”
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
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“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.”
“Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance”
“This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.”