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And, thinking of this judgment I would no longer be able to change, I suddenly felt a kind of relief, as if peace could come to me only after the moment when there would be nothing to add and nothing to remove in that arbitrary ledger of misunderstandings, and the galaxies which were gradually reduced to the last tail of the last luminous ray, winding from the sphere of darkness, seemed to bring with them the only possible truth about myself, and I couldn’t wait until all of them, one after... Italo Calvino
It was my turn to stand at the foremast-head; and with my shoulders leaning against the slackened royal shrouds, to and fro I swayed in what seemed an enchanted air. No resolution could withstand it; in that dreamy mood loosing all consciousness, at last my soul went out of my body; though my body still continued to sway as a pendulum will, long after the power that first moved it is withdrawn. Herman Melville
Haruki Murakami quote: "Sumire frowned and sighed.?If they invent a car that runs on..."
Sumire frowned and sighed.?If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far. Haruki Murakami
It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free. Emmet Fox
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by..."
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not here the music. Friedrich Nietzsche
Stanislaw Lem quote: "One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that..."
One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could build anything beginning with the letter 'n'. Stanislaw Lem
Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could often hear bird song and nothing else: Gaia felt as though she had fallen through a portal into a land lost in time. J. K. Rowling
It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise. Haruki Murakami
From the first extortion he had accepted, from the first directive he had obeyed, he had given them cause to believe that reality was a thing to be cheated, that one could demand the irrational and someone somehow would provide it. Ayn Rand
There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action could not guarantee the safety of the country and that 'as we act, let us not become the evil we deplore. Chris Hedges
It is in Christianity that our arts have developed; it is in Christianity that the laws of Europe- until recently- have been rooted. It is against a background of Christianity that all of our thought has significance. An individual European may not believe that the Christian faith is true, and yet what he says, and makes, and does will all spring out of his heritage of Christian culture and depend upon that culture for its meaning...I do not believe that culture of Europe could survive the... T. S. Eliot
...no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations. Chuck Palahniuk
Stephenie Meyer quote: "When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You..."
When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go. Stephenie Meyer
I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sku was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you. Jeffrey Eugenides
The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other to the world's end. C. S. Lewis

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