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«[Leningrad] sits astride the Neva, frozen in time, a haunting m?lange of pale hues, glorious fa?ades and teeming ghosts.»
«A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.»
«Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites»
«... joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.»
«A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds»
«Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.»
«After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what yo»
«A man sits as many risks as he runs.»
«Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal»
«Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.»

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