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‘A memory is a place you visit, not where you live. Happiness therefore is not a permanent state of being, but more a moment in time.
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Philip Pullman
“Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.”
Philip Pullman

Daphne du Maurier
“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is
alone.”
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

Stephen W. Hawking
“I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.”
Stephen Hawking

Richard  Adams
“Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”
Richard Adams, Watership Down
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M.R. Carey
“It’s not just Pandora who had that inescapable flaw. It seems like everyone has been built in a way that sometimes makes them do wrong and stupid things.”
M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts

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