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Khalil’s Quotes

“I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.”
― Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

tags: knowledge, thomas-edison

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“Music, oh, how faint, how weak,
Language fades before thy spell!
Why should Feeling ever speak,
When thou canst breathe her soul so well?”
― Thomas Moore

tags: feeling, music, thomas-moore

3 likes

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: disappointment

819 likes

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

tags: memory, nostalgia, vocabulary

1638 likes

“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.”
― Mark Twain

tags: conversation

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