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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young …
“When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that replied so well to hers as the gentle singing of the pines under the air of noon, and the soft murmurs of the breeze that scattered her hair and freshened her cheek, and the dashing of the waters that has no beginning or end.”
― Valperga
― Valperga
“She will love deeply, she will suffer terribly, she will have glorious moments to compensate.”
― Emily of New Moon
― Emily of New Moon
“Do Muslims believe the Quran to be God’s “literal” word? Yes and No. Yes, in the sense that the Quran is seen as representing the exact words of the original text as revealed by God. And No, in the sense that the Quran is not a book that is devoid of metaphor and allegory. What would be more correct then is to say that Muslims believe the Quran to be “God’s immutable word” because they believe it to be unchanging over time and unable to be changed.”
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“It is both a blessing
And a curse
To feel everything
So very deeply.”
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And a curse
To feel everything
So very deeply.”
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“People who brag of their ancestors are like root vegetables. All their importance is underground.”
― The Stranger from the Sea
― The Stranger from the Sea
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