“Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
― Night Train to Lisbon
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
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“There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.”
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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“Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?”
― Night Train to Lisbon
― Night Train to Lisbon
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