132 Quotes by John Knowles

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    Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

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    Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

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    Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

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    What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

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