"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-- Virginia Woolf

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“Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the chimney corner. ... About the only sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free-living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love”

Source : Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.13, Transaction Publishers
“Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst”
“If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.”
“Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse usâ€“to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.”

Source : Sarah J. Maas (2012). “Throne of Glass”, p.327, A&C Black
“Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.”

Source : Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.239, Simon and Schuster
“This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.”
“I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.”
“They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.”

Source : 'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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