“And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.”
― Out of the Silent Planet
― Out of the Silent Planet
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.”
― Out of the Silent Planet
― Out of the Silent Planet
“And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?”
― Out of the Silent Planet
― Out of the Silent Planet
“The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Lady Macbeth”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
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