Grief doesn't kill, love doesn't kill; but time kills everything, kills desire, kills sorrow, kills in the end the mind that feels them; wrinkels and softens the body while it still lives, tots it like a medlar, kills it too at last.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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Ch. 14
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- Antic Hay (1923)
- year
- 1923
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“Grief doesn't kill, love doesn't kill; but time kills everyt…” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-AEA9C01843. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/aea9c01843
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