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| 17 | 47 | View more quotes about clouds">Clouds would be strangers to them; rain an inconvenience; snow a nuisance; a tree an anachronism; a flower an oddity, cut and frozen in a florist's refrigerator. |
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| 17 | 44 | They would not care for the blackened grass growing between the bricks; they would take no note of the spider's architecture, nor marvel at the flight of a wren darting to its nest among the smoke-blackened, carved stones. |
| 17 | 45 | There would be no time. |
| 17 | 46 | There would be no time for them, no time for seeing, or feeling, or touching, or loving or finding out what it might be to be alive. |
| 17 | 47 | Clouds would be strangers to them; rain an inconvenience; snow a nuisance; a tree an anachronism; a flower an oddity, cut and frozen in a florist's refrigerator. |
| 17 | 48 | These were the men without meaning, so full and so empty, so crowded, so desolate, so busy, so needlessly occupied. |
| 17 | 49 | These were the gray men, the hurrying men, the efficient, smug, tragic insects, noiseless on soft feet, in the billion iron hills of technology. |
| 17 | 50 | How few of them gazed ever on the stars. |