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#1

“Not forever does the bulbul sing
In balmy shades of bowers,
Not forever lasts the spring
Nor ever blossom the flowers.
Not forever reigneth joy,
Sets the sun on days of bliss,
Friendships not forever last,
They know not life, who know not this.”
― Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan

tags: death, letting-go, life, life-changing, life-lessons, moving-on, seasons, temporality

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#2

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: reading

4463 likes

#3

“One of my best days was when I ... offered [chimp David Greybeard] fruit on my outstretched hand, and he turned his head away. I put my hand closer - and he took the fruit, dropped it, and gently squeezed my hand, which is a chimp reassurance gesture ... We communicated perfectly in a language that predates words.”
― Jane Goodall

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#4

“Julia Grey, I would rather see you hanged than watch any sister of mine go haring off after a man who will not have her," my brother Bellmont raged.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Silent on the Moor

tags: beginning, deanna-raybourn, dialogue, humor, lady-julia-grey, older-brothers, opening-lines, siblings, silent-on-the-moor

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#5

“She knew she never wanted children or to serve his breakfast or run his errands or pretend she was not intellectually engaged with the world to make herself more loveable to him.”
― Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

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#6

“I have seen this in thirty years of bookselling: customers stroking a book鈥檚 cover, peeking under the jacket, surreptitiously closing their eyes to smell the valley of pages - this sometimes accompanied by a quiet moan of pleasure- hugging it after purchase, and even giving it a little kiss.”
― Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale

tags: books, reading, reading-habits

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#7

“I think by then I'd been single longer than is healthy for a young man.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

tags: man, manhood, romance

2 likes

#8

“It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses

tags: capacity, greater, life, patience, shorter, strange, waiting, years

370 likes

#9

“The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

tags: waiting

305 likes

#10

“I'm still shy," I admit, pulling the sleeves over my hands, "and I might always be, I don't know, but I think you can be shy and still feel okay about yourself at the same time.”
― Megan Jacobson, Yellow

tags: aussie-author, australian-literature, introvert, megan-jacobson, self-love, shy, yellow

28 likes

#11

“鈥he designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi”
― Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

tags: empress, hindu, hinduism, india, indian-quote, wife

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#12

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: fire, love, magic, women

969 likes

#13

“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter鈥檚 day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.”
― Grace Willows

tags: adventure, adventurous, alpha, alpha-male, amour, assassin, betrayal, books, bright, choice, comedy, danger, daydream, daydreams, deceit, deception, desire, drama, e-book, ebooks, erotic, everlasting, exotic, faith, fear, fire, forever-love, fun, giving-all, grace, grace-willows, guns, hope, hot, hot-intrigue, killer, king, life-changing, longing, love, love-at-first-sight, lovers, loyalty, marriage, memories, men, murder, mystery, palace, passion, passionate, prince, proposal, psychotic, queen, rescue, revenge, romance, romantic, romantic-fiction, royal, royalty, sacrifice, saloons, scary, sex, sexy, soul-mate, soul-searching, sunset, survival, suspense, terror, timeless, ultimate-love

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#14

“Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if one takes time to understand her, there is something beautiful to find, something simple to be loved. But she goes unloved, for being misunderstood.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: alone, avoid, beautiful, complexity, consume, difficult, empty, find, fire, glorious, ignore, judge, love, misunderstood, overlook, pay-no-attention, simple, simplicity, unapproachable, understand, unfulfilled, unloved, untouched, waste, withdraw

92 likes

#15

“To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

tags: crying, dejan-stojanovic, dignity, feelings, hide, literature, literature-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, secret, thoughts, wisdom

399 likes

#16

“I don't judge people.
It blurs out the center of my attention,
my focus,
myself.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

tags: attention, blurs, center, focus, judge, judgement, life, people, secret, self

260 likes

#17

“Being a heterosexual woman who loved men meant being a translator for their emotions, a palliative nurse for their pride and a hostage negotiator for their egos.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

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#18

“The perfect man is kind, funny and generous. He bends down to say hello to dogs and puts up shelves.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

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#19

“To be a desirable woman鈥攖he sky鈥檚 the limit. Have every surface of your body waxed. Have manicures every week. Wear heels every day. Look like a Victoria鈥檚 Secret Angel even though you work in an office. It鈥檚 not enough to be an average-sized woman with a bit of hair and an all-right sweater. That doesn鈥檛 cut it. We鈥檙e told we have to look like the women who are paid to look like that as their profession.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

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#20

“I鈥檓 fiscally conservative but socially liberal,鈥� he said within the first two minutes of me asking him about his job. I wouldn鈥檛 be surprised if right-leaning thirty-somethings received a script in the post to prepare them for social situations.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

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#21

“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: dehumanization, differences, different, discrimination, economics-society, institutional-oppression, institutionalized, misfits, outsiders, profit, rejection, social-outcasts, society, surplus, survival-of-the-fittest, truth

109 likes

#22

“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our species deserves the credit. I am a devout atheist - nothing else makes any sense to me and I must admit to being bewildered by those, who in the face of what appears so obvious, still believe in a mystical creator. However I can see that the promise of infinite immortality is a more palatable proposition than the absolute certainty of finite mortality which those of us who are subject to free thought (as opposed to free will) have to look forward to and many may not have the strength of character to accept it.

Thus I am a supporter of Amnesty International, a humanist and an atheist. I believe in a secular, democratic society in which women and men have total equality, and individuals can pursue their lives as they wish, free of constraints - religious or otherwise. I feel that the difficult ethical and social problems which invariably arise must be solved, as best they can, by discussion and am opposed to the crude simplistic application of dogmatic rules invented in past millennia and ascribed to a plethora of mystical creators - or the latest invention; a single creator masquerading under a plethora of pseudonyms. Organisations which seek political influence by co-ordinated effort disturb me and thus I believe religious and related pressure groups which operate in this way are acting antidemocratically and should play no part in politics. I also have problems with those who preach racist and related ideologies which seem almost indistinguishable from nationalism, patriotism and religious conviction.”
― Harry Kroto

tags: acceptance, amnesty-international, ancient-dogma, atheism, atheist, autobiography, beliefs, biography, creator, democracy, dogma, equality, ethics, existence, freedom, freethought, humanism, humanist, humanitarian, ideology, immortality, individual-rights, morality, mortality, mystical, mysticism, nationalism, nobel-laureate, obvious, patriotism, philosophy, politics, racism, religious-conviction, religious-opposition, science, scientist, secular-humanism, secular-humanist, sense, separation-of-church-and-state, simplistic, strength, superstition, views

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#23

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

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#24

“Open the scroll of conch and find the text
That lies behind the priestly susurrus.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

tags: conch, mystery, riddle, sea, shell

3 likes

#25

“-I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy”
― William Golding

tags: conch, democracy, feudalism, piggy, serfdom, vox-populi

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