"You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels."

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Source : L. P. Hartley, Colm Tóibín (2002). “The go-between”, NYRB Classics

L.P. Hartley

#Angel Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Fallen Angels Quotes

“But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.”
“The concept of congruence in Euclidean geometry is not exactly the same as that in non-Euclidean geometry. ..."Congruent" means in Euclidean geometry the same as "determining parallelism," a meaning which it does not have in non-Euclidean geometry.”

Source : "The Philosophy of Space and Time". Book by Hans Reichenbach, 1957.
“I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.”
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
“What man is a man who does not make the world better”

Source : "Fictional character: Balian of Ibelin". "Kingdom of Heaven", www.imdb.com. 2005.
“Love is the only effective counter to death.”
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
“The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.”

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