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Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.


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... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.



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The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.



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Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.



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Inflation is the senility of democracies.



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One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.



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Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.



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This page presents the quote "Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.". Author of this quote is Sylvia Townsend Warner. This quote is about knowing, love, grief,.