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“I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Anna Karenina
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Anna Karenina
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― 1984
― 1984
“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
Ask Lionel Shriver - Monday, June 24th!
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