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Quote by Christopher Fry
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. – Christopher Fry

Other quotes by Christopher Fry

The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate. – Christopher Fry

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Sky & Clouds
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Christopher Fry
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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. – Christopher Fry

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Poetry
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Christopher Fry
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Other Quotes from
Death
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Death

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over. – Stevie Nicks

Category:
Death

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…? – Adrienne Rich

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Death

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. – Davy Crockett

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Death

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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, This aint going to last, so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now. – Adam Ant

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Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances. – Shimon Peres

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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. – Clifton Paul Fadiman

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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. – Walter Scott

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