“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
“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
“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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