“Life is made of so many partings welded together”
“Pip, dear old chap. life is made of ever many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith and one's a whitesmith, one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come, and must be met as they come.”
“For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.”
“A woman has so many parts to her body, life is very hard indeed.”
“Love is the force that brings us back together, in order to condense the experience dispersed in many lives and many parts of the world.”
“[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.”