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“A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth. The same rule holds for us now, of course: we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“THE SHOP THAT LETS YOU RENT HAPPINESS “This is the one.” The universe assures me from behind the counter. “But I thought you said the last one was the one.” I reply. “No.” Says the universe. “I sold you that one so you would know that this, this is the one.” “Is there another one?” I ask the universe. “I can’t tell you.” They reply. “It’d ruin the surprise.”
― I Wrote This For You
― I Wrote This For You
“Yet you still value the things you've lost the most. Because the things you've lost are still perfect in your head. They never rusted. They never broke. They are made of the memories you once had, which only grow rosier and brighter, day by day. They are made of the dreams of how wonderful things could have been and must never suffer the indignity of actually still existing. Of being real. Of having flaws. Of breaking and deteriorating.”
― I Wrote This For You
― I Wrote This For You
“the practice of solitude had given him a love for it, as happens with every big thing which we have begun by fearing, because we knew it to be incompatible with smaller things to which we clung, and of which it does not so much deprive us as it detaches us from them. Before we experience it, our whole preoccupation is to know to what extent we can reconcile it with certain pleasures which cease to be pleasures as soon as we have experienced it.”
― In Search Of Lost Time (All 7 Volumes)
― In Search Of Lost Time (All 7 Volumes)
“Are you saying I can fly?” “I say you are free.”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition
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