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Others have done it before me. I can, too.
William Faulkner
And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.
William Faulkner
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
William Faulkner
Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.
William Faulkner
Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
William Faulkner
The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene ...
William Faulkner
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Based on Topics: Dreams Quotes, Medicine & Medical Quotes, Pain Quotes, Reality Quotes, Sadness Quotes
Based on Keywords: apotheosized, conjunctive, immolated, surcease, unaltered
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(About Dreams, Medicine & Medical, Pain, Reality, Sadness)
I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen the savor of the pain's surcease, waking into the reality, the more than reality, not to the unchanged and unaltered old time but into a time altered to fit the dream which, conjunctive with the dreamer, becomes immolated and apotheosized
("Absalom, Absalom!")
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Others have done it before me. I can, too.
William Faulkner
And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.
William Faulkner
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
William Faulkner
Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.
William Faulkner
Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
William Faulkner
The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene ...
William Faulkner
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Based on Keywords: apotheosized, conjunctive, immolated, surcease, unaltered