"A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work."

-- Mark Twain

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“In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.”
“I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, â€œGod in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.”
“Delight in the scenery of each day.”
“Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.”

Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
“The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.”
“Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you.”
“Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.”
“Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.”

Source : Richard K. Morgan (2007). “Thirteen”, p.200, Del Rey

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