“The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.”
Source: This Immortal (1965), p. 60
“They are their own monuments, as is this quietly thrilling sentence.”
Source: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 9, Last Sentences, p. 130
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