“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― Landscape of the Body
― Landscape of the Body
“Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.”
― Einstein’s Dreams
― Einstein’s Dreams
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
― Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
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