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“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
― The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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