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Homer
“Now from his breast into the eyes the ache
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms,
longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer
spent in rough water where his ship went down
under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea.
Few men can keep alive through a big serf
to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches
in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind:
and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband,
her white arms round him pressed as though forever.”
Homer, The Odyssey
tags: love

Douglas Adams
“Arthur shook his head and sat down. He looked up.
“I thought you must be dead …” he said simply.
“So did I for a while,” said Ford, “and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic.”
Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

William Ralph Inge
“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.”
William Ralph Inge

William Ralph Inge
“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors.”
William Ralph Inge

Douglas Adams
“It's unpleasantly like being drunk."
"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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