The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night.
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The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Short summers lightly have a forward spring.
Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Linus: It was a short summer, Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown: And it looks like it's gonna be a looong winter.
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being.
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