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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Farthest Shore

    And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
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  2. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    The Old Days, the Lost Days -- in the half-closed eyes of memory {and in fact} they never marched across a calendar; they huddled round a burning log, leaned on a certain table, or listened to those certain songs.
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  3. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance."
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  4. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    He stood with his two frail hands on his cane and his eyes closed, and breathed in deeply the scent of the past. "Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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  5. Hilary Mantel _ A Place of Greater Safety

    Hérault, Fabre thinks: and his mind drifts back-as it tends to, these days- to the Café du Foy. He'd been giving readings from his latest-Augusta was dying the death at the Italiens-and in came this huge, rough-looking boy, shoe-horned into a lawyer's black suit, whom he'd made a sketch of in the street, ten years before. The boy had developed this upper-class drawl, and he'd talked about Hérault-"his looks are impeccable, he's well traveled, he's pursued by all the ladies at Court"-and beside Danton had been this fey wide-eyed egotist who had turned out to be half the city's extramarital interest. The years pass … plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose …
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  6. Charles Frazier _ Nightwoods

    How embarrassing that she ever did something that silly. But, good God, she was seventeen. At that age, we're mostly high-pitched and crazy. All urgent chemicals raging around the blood course. And that's why we do dangerous and embarrassing things, as if simultaneously we're immortal and going to die tomorrow. And that's why we look back on that time so fondly from the dimmer years to come. Remembering the days when we were like Greek gods. Mighty and idiotic.
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