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“Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”
― Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
― Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is something valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch.”
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“there's time for laughing and there's time for crying—
for hoping for despair for peace for longing
—a time for growing and a time for dying:
a night for silence and a day for singing
but more than all(as all your more than eyes
tell me)there is a time for timelessness”
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for hoping for despair for peace for longing
—a time for growing and a time for dying:
a night for silence and a day for singing
but more than all(as all your more than eyes
tell me)there is a time for timelessness”
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“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
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“The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.”
― Istanbul: Memories and the City
― Istanbul: Memories and the City
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