"Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know."

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Gabrielle Zevin

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“The naked truth is still taboo.”
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
“Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change”
“Thereâ€™s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and thereâ€™s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when theyâ€™re not entirely certain theyâ€™re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the Godâ€™s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence.”
“The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.”

Source : "Briefwechsel". Book by Moses Hess, p. 253, 1959.
“The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.”
“She reached down and traced my eyebrows. 'You do have really beautiful eyes.' 'We get to keep them,' I said. Grace started at my voice. 'What?' 'It's the one thing we keep. Our eyes stay the same.' I unclenched my fists. 'I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.”
“All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.”

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