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Koen’s Quotes

“Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one;”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

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“childhood falls silently to the bottom of my memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood

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“The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

tags: life, life-lessons, living, miracles

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“He knew how to find time to study and to write, to earn his living and to wander idly through the streets he loved; whereas we, who staggered from laziness to frantic activity and back again, wasted our time trying to decide whether we were lazy or industrious”
― Natalia Ginzburg, The Little Virtues

tags: laziness, work

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