"How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?"

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Source : Howard Jacobson (2010). “The Finkler Question”, p.16, A&C Black

Howard Jacobson

#Knowing Quotes #Together Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.”

Source : John Armstrong, John Aikin (1804). “The Art of Preserving Health”, p.143
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
“Adequate early rest is best...."Early to bed and early to rise" is still good counsel.”
“Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.”
“Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.”
“Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.”
“I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.”
“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”

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