"He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy."

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Source : Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Française: Storm in June”, Vintage

Irene Nemirovsky

#War Quotes #Happy Life Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.”
“Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.”
“We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.”
“I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.”

Source : "Art Bell: Radio's Master of the Unexplained Explains Himself". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. April 20, 2009.
“Itâ€™s harder to come back than it is to arrive.”
“I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.”

Source : Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.184, Quirk Books
“Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.78, tredition
“The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.”

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