"But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live."

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Source : Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

Lian Hearn

#Doors Quotes #Rivers Quotes #World Quotes

“I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.”
“The role of art in society differs for every artist.”
“I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.”
“I liked to use my face mask more than the diving helmet for most occasions. I was learning to hold my breath longer now and could go down almost as deep without the helmet which limited my movements...”

Source : Eugenie Clark (1953). “Lady With a Spear”
“All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.”
“There's only 1 way to get rich, quick! But not through a get rich quick scheme. There's a difference.”
“Iâ€™m seventeen years old, my name is Juan GarcÃa Madero, and Iâ€™m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. Iâ€™m an orphan, and someday Iâ€™ll be a lawyer. Thatâ€™s what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night.”
“...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”

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