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The first spring after the death is unbearable. Its inexorable, complete awakening. Its compulsive memories. Its intolerable mockery of beauty.

— Jo Sinclair

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Anna Teller was the only refugee on the plane from Munich to New York.

Anna Teller (1960)

The word Depression faded from the American air, but in her it would never fade completely, she knew that. (chapter Five, p177)

Wasteland (1948)

They started off the porch, and [she] felt the poems moving with her into the street, like a singing. (p309)

The Changelings (1955)

How fast the evening had passed, with its newnesses boxed one within the next like constantly opening flashes of excitement. (book 3 chapter 5)

Sing at My Wake (1951)

It was night in her lovely Ballroom, where a dream was completely safe. (book 4 chapter 3)

Sing at My Wake (1951)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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