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• fire
• saying
• light

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes? Umberto Eco

• rich
• love
• life

... these poets here, you see, they are not of this world: let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run, love and sing: they are as rich as Jacques Coeur, all these silly children, for they have their souls full of rhymes, rhymes which laugh and cry, which make us laugh or cry: Let them live: God blesses all the merciful: and the world blesses the poets. Arthur Rimbaud

• pain
• pains
• wants

Nothing forces us to know. What we do not want to know. Except pain Aeschylus

• time
• decide
• see

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J. R. R. Tolkien

• expectation
• impressive
• wellness

Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear. Suzanne Collins

• caring
• bad
• good

Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too? Danielle Steel

• see
• seeing
• otherness

To see ourselves as others see us! Agatha Christie

• people
• clouds
• experience

I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, I realized, was how life of the reef was layered and intertwined. I now had many individual pieces at hand: named images, nouns. How were they related? What were the verbs? Which syntaxes were indigenous to the place? I asked a dozen knowledgeable people. No one was inclined to elaborate- or they didn’t know. “Did you see the octopus?” Someone shouted after the dive. Yes, I thought, but who... Barry Lopez

• understanding
• life
• evening

I awaited Signor Polizzi's reply with ill-contained impatience. I could not even remain quiet; I would make sudden nervous gestures - open books and violent close them again. One day I happened to upset a book with my elbow - a volume of Morri. Hamilcar, who was washing himself, suddenly stopped, and looked angrily at me, with his paw over his ear. Was this the tumultuous existence he must expect under my roof? Had there not been a tacit understanding between us that we should live a peaceful... Anatole France

• sea
• literature
• frozen

Literature is an axe for the frozen sea around us. Franz Kafka

• future
• present
• presenter

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present? Arundhati Roy

• touching
• willed
• touched

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others. Marilyn Monroe

• generate
• generation
• interesting

I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us.' - Julia George Orwell

• book
• sea
• axe

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. Franz Kafka

• work
• spiritual
• cancer

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us. Marianne Williamson