― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of
pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." ~ Francis Bacon
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The past is a foreign country. They do things differently
there. ~ L.P. Hartley
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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
~Voltaire
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the
hand bleed that uses it. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
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At every moment, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and
the other in the abyss. ~ Paulo Coelho
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"The real catastrophes are always different -
unimagined, unprepared for, unknown." ~ Karen Thompson Walker.
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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are
the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ― Anna Quindlen
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Tiredness means the same now as it did in childhood: less
energy to slay monsters. ~ Alain de Botton
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Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them
than it has of warriors.
~ Charles de Lint
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You cannot travel within and stand still without.
~ James Allen
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“To see things in their true proportion, to escape the
magnifying influence of a morbid imagination, should be one of the chief aims
of life."
~ The Map of Life, William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they
must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski
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