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Caravan QUOTES

Caravan QUOTES

1 " quoting Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat:
"Good friends beware! the only life we knows Flies from us like an arrow from the bow, the Caravan of life is moving by, Quick! to your places in the passing show. "

― Dorothy Gilman , Caravan

2 " from Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat:
"Set not thy heart on any good or gain, Life means but pleasure, or means but pain; when Time lets slip a little perfect hour, O take it - for it will not come again. "

― Dorothy Gilman , Caravan

3 " So they live in darkness but they're safe, I said, and wondered if to be this safe was to always live in darkness... "

― Dorothy Gilman , Caravan

4 " What I felt at this moment was black dispair - but no, this was wrong because the color black has vitality , the night is black and has stars and a moon, and mysterious and important events can happen in the darkness. Despair, I decided, was grey: endless, bottomless, without night or day, time, sun or stars. "

― Dorothy Gilman , Caravan

5 " It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves: this was the moment to learn who I was and what I'd become... "

― Dorothy Gilman , Caravan