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“I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time. ”
― The Lion in Winter
― The Lion in Winter
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― The Physicists
― The Physicists
“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
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“But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
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“How do you know when you're in love?' she said.
'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low.”
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'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low.”
― The Takeover
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