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Wilder Thornton

1897 - 1975 (78)

Wilder Thornton
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Quote 1

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Quote 2

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”

Quote 3

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Quote 4

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

Quote 5

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Quote 6

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude

Quote 7

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.