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“And I sit here alone and far from you and it’s night and I’m reflecting on everything all around me and I am thinking of you. I saw it in your eyes, in your love, you too are swinging towards the depths of your own being in longer and longer circles. I saw happiness and pain in your eyes and reflections of the paradises lost and regained and lost again, that terrible loneliness and happiness, yes, and I reflect upon this and I think about you.
(from As I Was Moving Ahead I Occasionally Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, 2000)”
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(from As I Was Moving Ahead I Occasionally Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, 2000)”
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“As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fellow creatures a chance to live out their tiny, wonderful lives, too.”
― Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
― Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― The Hollow Men
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― The Hollow Men
“Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.”
― The Midwich Cuckoos
― The Midwich Cuckoos
“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
― Crush
― Crush
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