"Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?"

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Source : Haven Kimmel (2002). “The Solace of Leaving Early: A Novel”, p.35, Anchor

Haven Kimmel

#Ruins Quotes #Phantoms Quotes #Infinity Quotes

“If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”

Source : Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)
“Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.”
“I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.”
“Faithfully carry what God has put in your hands right now. This is Godâ€™s will.”
“The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.”
“To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !”

Source : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.115, Duncan Baird Publishers
“Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children”

Source : "U.N. Says ‘Evidence’ Points to Israel in Gaza School Attack". www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2014.
“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”

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