"A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life."

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John Milton

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“I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.”
“Bitterblue had never seen a man naked, and she was curious. She decided the universe owed her a few minutes, just a few, to satisfy her curiosity. So she went to him and knelt, which shut him up.”
“High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “The Intellectual Life: With a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, etched by Leopold Flameng”, p.328
“There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, itâ€™s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.”
“Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.”
“When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.”
“The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.”

Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Viking Pr
“it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.”

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