If you don't love life you ...

If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.
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 Eleanor Clark

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The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.
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