“Ars longa, vita brevis,” she whispered, a quote from Hippocrates. One of her favorites. Life is short, art eternal.
“she covered her ears with her hands, for fear that old custom of obeying other people’s plans for her should prevail yet again.”
― The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
― The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
“humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
― Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“people will treat with disdain such phenomena as are proved by the evidence of the senses, and commonly experienced—while they will defend to the death the reality of a phenomenon which they have neither seen nor experienced. “Faith is as powerful a force as science,” he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, “—but far more dangerous.”
― Voyager
― Voyager
“admitting the ultimate defeat of the spirit in self-imposed death.”
― The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
― The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
“Any system created by the mind of man can be hacked by the mind of man.”
― Mr. Mercedes
― Mr. Mercedes
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