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The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design.

— James Salter A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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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.

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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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