"All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction."

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Source : Javier Cercas (2008). “Soldiers of Salamis”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Javier Cercas

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“When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.”

Source : Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.182, New World Library
“Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion...”

Source : "The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is". Book by N. T. Wright, 1999.
“Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions - being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you.”
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?”
“I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!”
“There is a sense that science and politics are incompatible. I don't think so at all. I think it's important that scientists take great pains to make sure that ideology and personal bias and wishful thinking do not contaminate the collection and analysis and evidence.”
“When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?”

Source : Ginger Man (1955) ch. 31
“The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.”

Source : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Terracotta Dog”, p.181, Pan Macmillan

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