"Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive."

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Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.64, Profile Books

Elfriede Jelinek

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“In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.”
“Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.260
“I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.”
“Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.”

Source : Teresa Medeiros (2013). “The Vampire Who Loved Me”, p.216, Amber House Books
“I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.”
“His face spreads into a warm smile. â€œAs a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars â€“ are you gettinâ€™ all romantic on me, Camryn Bennett?â€ He looks at me with a playful sideward stare.”
“Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.”
“My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.”

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