"Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart."

-- Alethea Kontis

#People Quotes #Together Quotes #Tears Quotes

“The only person in all the world who can give you pleasure, or deny it, is yourself. No matter how much we love someone, the decision to experience pleasure, and to make room for it in our lives, is an internal one. If you are resistant, you could be around the most joyous people in the world and be miserable.”
“I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.”
“Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.”
“Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences,”

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“Inner Nature, when relied on, cannot be fooled. Â But many people do not look at it or listen to it, and consequently do not understand themselves very much. Â Having little understanding of themselves, they have little respect for themselves, and are therefore easily influenced by others.”
“The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.”
“Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past”
“The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.”

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