"However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood."

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Source : Ernest Bramah (1936). “The Kai Lung Omnibus”

Ernest Bramah

#Flood Quotes #Wells Quotes #Refuge Quotes

“It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.”

Source : Max Frisch (1977). “Sketchbook 1946-1949”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?”
“You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.”

Source : Karin Slaughter (2014). “The Will Trent Series 7-Book Bundle: Triptych, Fractured, Undone, Broken, Fallen, Criminal, Unseen”, p.1611, Bantam
“The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.”
“Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.”
“I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.”
“We become what we look at most.”
“A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.”

Source : William Beebe (2012). “Galapagos: World's End”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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