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“There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.”
― My Family and Other Animals
― My Family and Other Animals
“I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.”
― Justine
― Justine
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