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“Gentlemen, my father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. I understand only love and liberty.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
“Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.”
― When We Were Orphans
― When We Were Orphans
“Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
“The colonel nodded. "Our childhood seems so far away now. All this" - he gestured out of the vehicle - "so much suffering. One of our Japanese poets, a court lady many years ago, wrote how sad this was. She wrote of how our childhood becomes like a foreign land once we have grown."
"Well, Colonel, it's hardly a foreign land to me. In many ways, it's where I've continued to live all my life. It's only now I've started to make my journey from it.”
― When We Were Orphans
"Well, Colonel, it's hardly a foreign land to me. In many ways, it's where I've continued to live all my life. It's only now I've started to make my journey from it.”
― When We Were Orphans
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