# Quote — Jane Smiley, Moo

> It was the exact combination of the ephemeral and the eternal that a dying man needed to know about.

- Author: [Jane Smiley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley.md)
- Book: [Moo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/moo.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/moo/it-was-the

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> How could she pursue the transcendence and virtue of the intellectual life when her mind had disappeared into her body like a sponge into a basin of ink?

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> The thick, sugary covering of the snow.

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