Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
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Sleep lay upon the wilderness, it lay across the faces of nations, it lay like silence on the hearts of sleeping men and low upon lowlands and high upon hills, flowed gently sleep, smooth-sliding sleep - sleep - sleep.
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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
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