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“The rain is falling all around,It falls on field and tree,It rains on the umbrellas here,And on the ships at sea.”
“There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's ra...”
“It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines.”
“The Sun after the rain is much beautiful than the Sun before the rain!”
“The first bout of warm spring rain caused normally respectable women to pull off their stockings and run through muddy puddles alongside their children.”
“I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.”
“How I hate the sight of an umbrella!”
“Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze.”
“No rain but thunder, and the sound of giants.”
“A plop of rain hit me on the face, one of those early raindrops that turns up five minutes ahead of all the others to let you know it's time to get indoors.”
“Rain caused one to reflect on the shadowed, more poignant parts of lifethe inescapable sorrows, the speechless longings, the disappointments, the regrets, the cold miseries. It also allowed one the...”
“...and with it would come that wonderful, unmistakable smell of rain, that smell of dust and water meeting that lingered for a few seconds in the nostrils and then was gone, and would be missed, so...”
“I need grit and struggle and Los Angeles is terribly nice, but people, once they get there, cease to be real. Constant and repetitive fulfillment is not good for the human spirit. We all need rain ...”
“It comes back all at once: a woman on a beach, a tree, a wind that calms, a rain that cleanses, but does not wet.”
“Tomorrow maybe love; but now it is the rainPossesses us entirely, the twilight and the rain.”
“Watching the rain is as beautiful as watching the sunset or the sunrise and it is even better because in addition to watching you can also listen to it, the fantastic music of the drop sounds!”
“She inhaled again. 'You made it rain,' she said softly, delighted. 'Everyone needs a respite from the sun.”
“Please tell me it's going to rain today, Francois.''Ah!' he smiled. (This was obviously familiar territory.) 'I regret to inform you that the forecast calls for nothing but sunshine.''Relentless su...”
“A person looked at me and said "I can't believe you eat ice cream when it's cold out" "I replied oh that's nothing I drink water also when it rains”
“The rain keeps starting and stopping like an anxious lover who doesnt know if he should spend the night.”