“Everything was dying, yet death did not suffice. Life had hidden resources. In a thousand ways it was concentrating strength, hoarding its energies in seed, chrysalis, and nectar, preparing for the warrior sweep out of exile that would undo the defeat of winter. Spring was implicit.”
Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 19, “Ashes” (p. 330)
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Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 8 (p. 132; Vorkosigan to Cordelia; she quotes it back to him on p. 236)
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Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
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Her observations in 1917 on the immense vitality of the Japanese during the war, quoted in "Japan" (1916-20)
Part 3, Ch. 12, § 3.
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
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“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
Sundial of the Seasons, Lippincott, 1964, p. 49
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