"The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep."

-- Murasaki Shikibu

#Memories Quotes #Sleep Quotes #First Love Quotes

“Above all there's a love which is real, the ultimate love. We merge not only physically, but mentally and spiritually, in arc-line, aura and subtle body. We amalgamate with each other. That is real love.”
“The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.”
“Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most”
“I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.”
“The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.”

Source : William Wharton (2012). “Birdy”, p.31, HarperCollins UK
“I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week.”
“Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences.”
“The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination”

Source : Claude C. Hopkins (2016). “Scientific Advertising”, p.2, Laurus - Lexecon Kft.

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