"All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about."

-- Aurora Rose Reynolds

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“I didn't change the world.”
“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”

Source : Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1830). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary by Tho. Tyrwhitt”, p.94
“In Tel Aviv the weekends last 48 hours. In Jerusalem they last 6 months.”
“It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.”
“Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.”
“Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.”

Source : "G3" Magazine, November 2002.
“I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.”

Source : Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2012). “Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986”, p.43, Pantheon
“An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.”

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