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Yevgeny Yevtushenko quote: "In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and..."
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
To feel one’s attachment to a certain region, one’s love for a certain group of men, to know that there is always a spot where one’s heart will feel at peace these are many certainties for a single human life. And yet this is not enough. But at certain moments everything yearns for that spiritual home Albert Camus
That night I followed him whenever he let me. I had to. Followed him into strange, complicated actions, very far, bad and good actions. But I was never allowed into his world. What was I to him? A fantasy. I gave him another identity. Whenever I lay next to him in a bed and it was night, I was too excited to fall asleep, too unwilling to lose a chance that I might be allowed to enter his life. Since he wanted fantasy, what I wanted didn’t matter. I asked myself if there was any chance he... Kathy Acker
Roland Barthes quote: "I ask for nothing but to live in my suffering."
I ask for nothing but to live in my suffering. Roland Barthes
Haruki Murakami quote: "Whatever the composition of this new world might be, I surely..."
Whatever the composition of this new world might be, I surely have no choice but to accept it in silence. Haruki Murakami
Agatha Christie quote: "Take what you want, says God, but pay for it"
Take what you want, says God, but pay for it Agatha Christie
Oscar Wilde quote: "We're all lying in the gutter but some of us are looking up at..."
We're all lying in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the stars. Oscar Wilde
Even I would be moved by his kindness at times, but he could, just as easily, be malicious and cruel. He was both a spirit of amazing loftiness and an irredeemable man of the gutter. He could charge forward, the optimistic leader, even as his heart writhed in a swamp of loneliness. He lived in his own special hell. Haruki Murakami
J. D. Salinger quote: "Act, Zachary Martin Glass, when and where you want to, since..."
Act, Zachary Martin Glass, when and where you want to, since you feel you must, but do it with all your might. J. D. Salinger
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it. Coco Chanel
They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in exile in their own country. They are torn between love of home and love of something else; of which the sea may be the explanation or may be only the symbol. It is also found in a nameless nursery rhyme which is the finest line in English literature and the dumb refrain of all English poems, 'Over the hills and far away. Gilbert K. Chesterton
And I started to cry again, realizing that it must be changing him, too, this man who was kind enough to be a soul but strong as only a human could be. Stephenie Meyer
For they were alone, and he was one of the seven persons in the world who knew the Archmage's name. The others were the Master Namer of Roke; and Ogion the Silent, the wizard of Re Albi, who long ago on the mountain of Gont had given Ged that name; and the White Lady of Gont, Tenar of the Ring; and a village wizard in Iffish called Vetch; and in Iffish again, a house-carpenter's wife, mother of three girls, ignorant of all sorcery but wise in other things, who was called Yarrow; and finally,... Ursula K. Le Guin
I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who’s a genius on his best days). Ian Mcewan
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on.... Martin Luther King jr.

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