"A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind."

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John Dryden

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“Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan
“There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.”
“I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.”
“Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?”
“The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.3, New Directions Publishing
“I don't think every movie should be in 3D. I hope the Coen brothers don't do their next movie in 3D. I don't think they have any plans to.”
“If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.”
“Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.”

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