This is my thought, that for every soul, something must come to pass, and for everything that does come to… — Jane Smiley
This is my thought, that for every soul, something must come to pass, and for everything that does come to pass, every soul can imagine many things that might have come to pass, all of them less evil than what actually fell out. Folk must have something to think on, or they would be unable to hope for Heaven or remember Paradise.
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My mind is like a room where the door swings free in the breeze, and many visitors come and go and stay and vanish as they will.
Still others reflected on how quickly the food could be snatched from a man's table, or the child from a woman's breast, or the wife from a man's bedcloset, that no strength of grasp could hold these goods in place. And others remarked to themselves how sweet these goods were, in spite of that, and saw that pleasure lost in every moment is pleasure lost forever.
It was always and ever hard to tell with women why they chose one way and not another.
