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Rick Kastelein
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“it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.”
― Burmese Days
― Burmese Days
“You have to know someone intimately to be able to love them. So love at first sight is a contradiction in terms. Unless in that first sight there's some sort of mystical gigabyte downloading of information from one mind into the other.”
― Ghostwritten
― Ghostwritten
“The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.”
― القرآن الكريم
― القرآن الكريم
“Miss Brinklow, however, was not yet to be sidetracked. "What do the lamas do?" she continued.
"They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit of wisdom."
"But that isn't doing anything."
"Then, madam, they do nothing.”
― Lost Horizon
"They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit of wisdom."
"But that isn't doing anything."
"Then, madam, they do nothing.”
― Lost Horizon
“To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.”
― Burmese Days
― Burmese Days
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