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Ernest Hemingway quote: "The world breaks everyone; but, in the end, people are..."
The world breaks everyone; but, in the end, people are stronger at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway
...The silence of a place where there were once horsesis a mountainand I have seen by lightning that ever mountainonce fell from the airringinglike the chime of an iron shoe... W. S. Merwin
Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. 'How could you begin?' said she. 'I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?' 'I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun. Jane Austen
Archimedes quote: "Give me a place outside the earth on which to rest my lever,..."
Give me a place outside the earth on which to rest my lever, and I will move the world. By Archimedes Archimedes
Haruki Murakami quote: "The world is an inherently unfair place."
The world is an inherently unfair place. Haruki Murakami
It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted. Elizabeth Gilbert
There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things. Wendell Berry
Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week. Jane Austen
If you ask me, that's reason enough to keep a kitchen at the center of a family's life, as a place to understand favorite foods as processes, not just products. Barbara Kingsolver
Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. But caregiving does buttonhole you; you're stitched in one place. . . . Paul wasn't on a learning curve but seemed trapped in a circle. He's swoop forward only to loop back again and fall to earth. Diane Ackerman
..though Miss Rebecca Sharp has twice had occasion to thank Heaven, it has been, in the first place, for ridding her of some person whom she hated, and secondly, for enabling her to bring her enemies to some sort of perplexity or confusion; neither of which are very amiable motives for religious gratitude, William Makepeace Thackeray
maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time. Candace Bushnell
Here in the north each night is a whole winter long. Yet the place is fair enough, doubt it not! Thou shalt see sights here such as thou hast not seen in the halls of the English king. We shall be together as sisters whilst thou bidest with me; we shall go down to the sea when the storm begins once more; thou shalt see the billows rushing upon the land like wild, white-maned horses—and then the whales far out in the offing! They dash one against another like steel-clad knights! Ha, what joy... Henrik Ibsen
George R. R. Martin quote: "The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a..."
The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses. George R. R. Martin
The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other.-Kheldar David Eddings

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