"It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!"

-- Andre Chenier

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“I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.”
“If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.”

Source : "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.
“There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.”
“Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.”
“We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.”
“Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person who refuses to be on call, rather than the importunate caller, who is considered rude.”
“Isn't it interesting how Christians are not afraid to teach their children about evolution?”
“Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'”

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