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I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of a town. These streets with their houses did not exist, they were but a ludicrous projection of the moon's sumptuous personality. This was a city of Pretend, created by the hypnotism of moonnight. -- Yet when I examined the moon she too seemed but a painting of a moon and the sky in which she lived a fragile echo of color. If I blew hard the whole shy mechanism would collapse... E. E. Cummings
If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world is contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature. Anything becomes permissible. We return once more to the nightmare cultures of Hitler, Stalin, King Philip II, Montezuma, Caligula, Heliogabalus, Herod, the Pharaohs; Christ sacrificed himself in vain. Edward Abbey
Dorothy Dunnett quote: "Don’t you think you should retire again? The first retiral..."
Don’t you think you should retire again? The first retiral seems to have got mislaid. Dorothy Dunnett
I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve Paulo Coelho
When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength. Paul Brunton
Yasunari Kawabata quote: "They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to..."
They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again. Yasunari Kawabata
(...) he walked away understanding, (...) how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made... on the other hand, how accidental fate may seem when things can never turn out other than they do. Philip Roth
George Eliot quote: "In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are..."
In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures. George Eliot
Richard Russo quote: "She had always seemed to him to be deep-down wild, the wilder..."
She had always seemed to him to be deep-down wild, the wilder because she harnessed that wildness most of the time. Richard Russo
It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand. George Orwell
He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death. Arthur Rimbaud
I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like. Haruki Murakami
My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafs where they like me and cafs where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on. Jean Rhys
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems. Arthur O'Shaughnessy
I thought I was going to die there, alone. I thought I would never see you again." He seemed to shake off the memory and leaned back on an elbow, gazing at her with a lop-sided smile on his face."The Shadrin left some scars that aren't healed yet. But I would have to take off my pants to show them to you."Really?" Kahlan gave a throaty laugh. "I think I better have a look... to see if everything is all right. Terry Goodkind

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