“A house built on greed cannot long endure.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
1842
Source: Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
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“The long sobs of
The violins
Of autumn
Lay waste my heart
With monotones
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Des violons
De l'automne
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Source: The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
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