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“It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.”
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“How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?”
Source : Song: How Deep Is the Ocean?
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“Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating.”
Source : Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.17, Pan Macmillan
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“I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.”
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“We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.”
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“There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.”
Source : Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.242, Lulu.com
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“When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.”
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“The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.”
Source : Helen M. Luke (2011). “The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine”, p.127, Image