“I did not come here for this.” said the woman to the man. “You’re missing the point,” said the man to the woman. “The question is not what you came for but what came for you.”

The end often resembles the beginning in that they are both functions of movement; the middle is only a placeholder between the two.

The relationship of cause to effect in its most elemental sense seems self-evident but because the principles of existence are reciprocal in nature, effect, in its own way, also alters cause.

She was a phenomenon to be thought about only in the most abstract of terms because she was some one whose reality could never, in any real sense, be verified.

The end, even a happy one, is always under the influence of Saturn and the happy ones are few…

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…in the long history, since records had been kept, he did not appear in a single direct reference but his presence was a shadow over every word…