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Tove Jansson
“He said, "It was burning a hole in my pocket. I had to get rid of it, as quickly as possible. I had to buy the most important think I could think of."
And he went out and bought a dreadfully tiny bottle of attar of roses.
I think he did exactly the right thing.
Some people say Uncle Einar is a snob, and I sincerely hope I can develop along the same lines.”
Tove Jansson, The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories

Eve Babitz
“There is no precedent for women getting their own "everything" and learning that it's not the answer.”
Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

Carlo Rovelli
“In the awareness that we can always be wrong, and therefore ready at any moment to change direction if a new track appears; but knowing also that if we are good enough we will get it right and will find what we are seeking. This is the nature of science. The”
Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli
“Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.”
Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Kathleen Collins
“...later she would laugh when she discovered that meaninglessness came from the dark shaft of gloom that surrounded her day and night, and that ecstasy was just a sunny room away.”
Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
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