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“Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.”
~ Anonymous quotation”
― The Duke's Match Girl
~ Anonymous quotation”
― The Duke's Match Girl
“If dreams are thwarted, then yearning must take their place
If reunion is impossible, then longing must take its place.”
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If reunion is impossible, then longing must take its place.”
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“the political criminal is the victim of an attempt of a more or less despotic government to preserve its own stability. He is not necessarily guilty of an unsocial offense; he simply tries to overturn a certain political order which may itself be anti-social.”
― Anarchism and other essays
― Anarchism and other essays
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Cosmos
[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Cosmos
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