"My longest love affair: with a book."

-- Rebecca Mead

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“The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.”

Source : Pierre Loti (2005). “Egypt”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.
“If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that she â€” no! nor the whole world â€” should never hinder him from loving her.”
“Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.”

Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”
“A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.”
“John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible.”
“My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“You can be for something and still be damaged by it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“You can't be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?”

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