The Bridge on San Luis Rey

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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Thornton Wilder

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

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Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

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Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.

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The whole purpose of literature... Is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

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