Willard Blakesley

Willard’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (205)
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Willard’s Quotes

“No busques valores absolutos en el mundo relativo de la naturaleza”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

tags: spirituality

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“I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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“Reading is solitude.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

tags: reading, solitude

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“I watched Hugo Barrington when he gave his evidence. The same self-confidence, the same arrogance, the same half-truths spouted convincingly to the jury, just as he’d whispered them to me in the privacy of the bedroom.”
― Jeffrey Archer, Only Time Will Tell

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