Sometimes, when you're deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks in the dusk, spinning. They each have a spindle, and on to these they are spinning their wool, milk-white, like the moonlight. In fact, it is the moonlight, the moon itself, which is why they don't carry a distaff. They're not Fates, or anything terrible; they don't affect the lives of men; all they have to do is to see that the world gets its hours of darkness, and they do this by spinning the moon down out of the sky. Night after night, you can see the moon getting less and less, the ball of light waning, while it grown on the spindles of the maidens. Then, at length, the moon is gone, and the world has darkness, and rest..... On the darkest night, the maidens take their spindles down to the sea, to wash their wool. And the wool slips from the spindles into the water, and unravels in long ripples of light from the shore to the horizon, and there is the moon again, rising above the sea.. Only when all the wool is washed, and wound again into a white ball in the sky, can the moon-spinners start their work once more..
Mary Stewart
Source: Wikipedia
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
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Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more
fate merlin
To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again
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At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.
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The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
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Nothing ever happens to me.
first-sentence
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
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The gods love salt. The sweat of human endeavour adds savour to every sacrifice.
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
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