"Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another."

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Source : Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.82, Emblem Editions

Anne Michaels

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“Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.”
“I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid.”
“The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.”
“Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.”
“Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.”
“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
“Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament”
“Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.”

Source : S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.66, Penguin

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