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I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you? Paulo Coelho
I hadn't done any fooling around in so long, I didn't know what to do. I sort of wanted to lose weight and take up piano before I got into another relationship. Russell Brand
Richard Ford quote: "It was as if I'd already left some time before and was just..."
It was as if I'd already left some time before and was just catching up with myself. Richard Ford
The autopsy took place in the morning and was the best argument for the buddy system. I had ever seen. Never live alone, I told myself. Before you chane a lightbulb, call someone from the other room and have him watch until you are finished. David Sedaris
How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people in the world? Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. Art Buchwald
It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began. Neil Gaiman
Marguerite Duras quote: "Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way..."
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened. Marguerite Duras
...centuries would yet pass before the mighty works of fifty generations of humans would decay past use. Only the declining powers of men, themselves, rendered them useless now. Isaac Asimov
You're a nice boy," she chuckled harshly. "You must come round here one evening. I'll teach you something you didn't know before. Christopher Isherwood
...there was apparent in all a sort of anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a consciousness of some great, unfathomable mystery being accomplished... the most solemn mystery in the world was being accomplished. Evening passed, night came on. And the feeling of suspense and softening of the heart before the unfathomable did not wane, but grew more intense. No one slept. Leo Tolstoy
And there was no longer a single race who bred blindly and without question. Time and its agonizing nostalgia would touch the heart each season, and be seen in the fall of a leaf, or, most terrible of all, a loved face would grow old. Cronos and the Fates had entered man's thinking, and try to escape as he might, he would endure an interior Ice Age. He would make, and then unmake fables. Then at last, and unwillingly, comprehend an intangible abstraction called space-time, and shiver inwardly... Loren Eiseley
The whole scene had an imaginary quality to it. I knew that it was real, but at the same time it was better than reality, more nearly a projection of what I wanted from reality than anything I had experienced before. Paul Auster
The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before". Deepak Chopra
On the next page she came to a spell "for the refreshment of the spirit". The pictures were fewer here but very beautiful. And what Lucy found herself reading was more like a story than a spell. It went on for three pages and before she had read to the bottom of the page she had forgotten that she was reading at all. She was living in the story as if it were real, and all the pictures were real too. When she had got to the third page and come to the end, she said, "That is the loveliest... C. S. Lewis

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