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“Later, when we no longer there, we find those streets are very dear to us, we miss the roofs, Windows, and doors, that the walls are essential to us, that trees are beloved, that every day we did enter those houses we never entered, and we have left something of our affections, our life and heart on those paving stones.”
― The Complete Novels: Les Misérables, Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Hans of Iceland, Last Day of a Condemned Man, Man Who Laughs, Ninety-Three, A Fight with a Cannon…
― The Complete Novels: Les Misérables, Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Hans of Iceland, Last Day of a Condemned Man, Man Who Laughs, Ninety-Three, A Fight with a Cannon…
“The nations of the earth that most vigorously foul the planetary nest and those in possession of the most destructive arsenals ought to be governed only by young women with small kids. More than anyone else, such mothers must live in the future, and they also face each day the realities of raw human nature.. This gives them a special insight,”
― Children of God
― Children of God
“We the living planet, Sophie! We the great vessel sailing around a burning sun in the universe. But each and one of us is also a ship sailing through life with a cargo of genes. When we have carried this cargo safely to the next harbor- we have not lived in vain.”
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“Conscience never dies" the cricket said "There will always be a cricket for those who deserve, who are worthy.”
― Quichotte
― Quichotte
“There are things that are too big for us humans :
Pain,loneliness,and death, but also beauty, publicity and happiness. For them we created religion. What happens when we lose it? Those things are still too big for us. What is left for us is the poetry of the individual life.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
Pain,loneliness,and death, but also beauty, publicity and happiness. For them we created religion. What happens when we lose it? Those things are still too big for us. What is left for us is the poetry of the individual life.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
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