"When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love."

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Source : Patrick Süskind (2015). “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”, p.236, Penguin UK

Patrick SÃ¼skind

#Done Quotes #Proud Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.”
“You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough”
“We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 31, 2017
“The best armor is to keep out of range.”
“The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.”
“There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities nowâ€”strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.”
“It's hard to get lice out of your head, and there's no easy cure for shaking off campaign-based thinking, either.”
“I wanted to go to the end of photography.”

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