Quotes by Thomas Burnett Swann

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The body is the temple of the heart. How shall we reach the sacred image unless we enter the gates?
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I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child.
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It is always pleasant to divulge a secret under dramatic circumstances.
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...she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however she longs for requital, however long she waits, may receive in return the reverse of what she gives, the dark side of the moon.
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But age became him as it did the oaks and the cedars.
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I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child
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A man’s love for a man is neither more nor less than a man’s love for a woman, it is only different.
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There ought to be laughter in love. But there also ought to be wonder.