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A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.

— James Salter A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.

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The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.

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France is herself Only in the winter, her naked self, without manners. In the fine weather, all the world can love her.

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As his prick goes into her, he discovers the world. He knows the source of numbers, the path of the stars.

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