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“I was so absorbed in the things that I couldn’t change, I forgot the most important thing.”
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
“What is imagination?...
It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.”
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It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.”
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“He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees...The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love...Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.”
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Alain de Botton
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