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“When You Are Old"


WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.”
― W.B. Yeats

“All civilisation begins with a theocracy and ends with a democracy. This law of liberty succeeding unity is written in architecture.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”
― Pravin Lal

“But people can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II

“Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better”
― Roberto Bolaño, Amulet

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“querer a alguien no es pecado, el amor está bien, lo único demoniaco es el odio.”
― José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Should I run so far that I reach the sea, I should not have run far enough, for the thing I run from rides on my back and in my blood and will not be shaken.”
― Intisar Khanani, Thorn

“It may not be pretty, but sometimes justice has to be hard to keep the rest of us straight and safe.”
― Intisar Khanani, Thorn

“Love does not claim possession but gives freedom.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
― Isaac Asimov

“...that the true protagonist of an sci-fi story or novel is an idea and not a person. If it is good sf the idea is new, it is stimulating, and, probably most important of all, it sets off a chain-reaction of ramification-ideas in the mind of the reader; it so-to-speak unlocks the reader's mind so that that mind, like the author's, begins to create. Thus sf is creative and it inspires creativity, which mainstream fiction by-and-large does not do. We who read sf (I am speaking as a reader now, not a writer) read it because we love to experience this chain-reaction of ideas being set off in our minds by something we read, something with a new idea in it; hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create -- and enjoy doing it: joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness.”
― Philip K. Dick

“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

“Stay a while and Listen.”
― Deckard Cain

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.”
― Sonya Hartnett, The Ghost's Child

“Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.”
― Sonya Hartnett, The Ghost's Child

“Bob was a sin-eater—”
― Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“heal the roots, to see the tree grow vibrant.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James