"It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children; that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again."

-- Elizabeth Berg

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“Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that”
“No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.”

Source : Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.479
“All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.”
“Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.”

Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Double Comfort Safari Club”, p.211, Anchor
“The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another in patterns of complex recursiveness in which Sun, Moon, and Saturn are also modalities of Earth.”
“Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.”
“I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.”

Source : "Nouveau système de musique théorique" by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Paris, (p. 59), 1726.

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