"Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book."

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Source : 1854 TheAngel in the House, bk.1,The Betrothal, canto 8, prelude 2,'The Revelation'.

Coventry Patmore

#Love Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Book Quotes

“What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.”
“A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.”
“When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.”
“We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.”

Source : "Join the SETI search". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2009.
“No one is going to hear what she says whether she speaks or not. Simply she could close her eyes and never speak again. She could suck all of the air in this room-every dust mote, every atom-into her body and hide it inside herâ€¦”

Source : Laura Kasischke (2002). “The Life Before Her Eyes”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.”
“I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!”
“I love acting, every job is a dream job when you're an actor. I'd like to do eventually more film work and to collaborate with the best actors and directors in film.”

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