"And so they are ever returning to us, the dead."

-- W. G. Sebald

“Until I truly loved, I was alone.”

Source : Caroline Sheridan Norton (1862). “The Lady of La Garaye”, p.75
“I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.”
“In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.”
“I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.”
“The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koonts pgs. 354-355 chapter 53”
“To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings, new dislikings, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, and ourselves, and the world, and the life to come, and salvation.”
“Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.”
“A book is the only immortality.”

Source : "Part of a Man's Life". Book by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1905.

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