Salo Flohr famous quotes

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This is what our love isâ€“â€“a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.
People say love can be developed, but in the end, the only person you love is yourself. That's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?
I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

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