Nikki
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“It’s like I can put my crossword puzzle away and help you with your Rubik’s Cube a little bit,” is how he puts it.
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― Four Quartets
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― Four Quartets
“What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do - an extension of themselves, in fact! Even Christianity does not cure us, since one cannot feel right without assuming that the rest must be wrong. Personally I would rather feel wrong with everybody else than right all by myself: I like people different, and agree with the man who said that the worst of the human race is the number of duplicates.”
― Baghdad Sketches
― Baghdad Sketches
“I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?”
― A Winter in Arabia
― A Winter in Arabia
“It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
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