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“They hadn't loved each other enough in the time they had, and then time ran out.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“Today’s young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.”
― Liberalism: The Classical Tradition
― Liberalism: The Classical Tradition
“For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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