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Quote from Laura Whitcomb, A Certain Slant of Light
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I’ll say this is just a place where you can’t play music or eat. She’s gone. The library sucks.
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Quote from ابن قيم الجوزية
The slave is not afflicted with a punishment greater than the hardening of the heart and being distant from Allah. For the Fire was created to melt the hardened heart. The most distant heart from Allah is the heart which is hardened. If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry.
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Quote from Melissa de la Cruz, Revelations
Bet you can’t even name one romantic movie you like,” she teased.She felt smug when a few minutes went by and Oliver was still unable to name one romantic movie he could profess to enjoy.The Empire Strikes Back,” Oliver finally declared, tapping his horn at a Prius that wandered over the line.The Empire Strikes Back? The Star Wars movie? That’s not romantic!” Schuyler huffed, fiddling with the air conditioner controls.Au contraire, my dear, it’s very romantic. The last scene, you know, when they’re about to put Han in that freezing cryogenic chamber or whatever? Remember?”Schuyler mmm-hmmmed.And Leia leans over the ledge and says, ‘I love you.'”That’s cheesy, not romatic,” Schuyler argued, although she did like that part.Let me explain. What’s romantic is what Han says back. Remember what he says to her? After she says ‘I love you’?”Schuyler grinned. Maybe Oliver had a point. “Han says, ‘I know.'”Exactly,” Oliver tapped the wheel. “He doesn’t have to say anything so trite as ‘I love you.” Because that’s already understood. And that’s romantic.
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Quote from Kenneth C. Davis, Don’t Know Much about History: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned
The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)
Quote from Lygia Fagundes Telles, Ciranda de Pedra
Think of something useless, and that’s probably what I’ll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to raise pigeons without a thought of eating them, plant rose bushes without expecting to pick roses, write without aiming at publication. We need to do things without expecting benefits in return. The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but it’s in the curving paths that the best things are found. . . . We must love the useless, because there is beauty in uselessness.
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Quote from C.G. Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
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Quote from Felix Alba-Juez, Galloping with Light – Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.
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