"Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding."

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Source : Jostein Gaarder (2010). “The Orange Girl”, p.71, Hachette UK

Jostein Gaarder

#Life Is Short Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Going Away Quotes

“It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?”

Source : Jude Deveraux (2012). “Wild Orchids”, p.90, Simon and Schuster
“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.”
“A mind obsessed with sex is good for nothing else.”
“I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.”
“Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot.”
“It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.”
“So I'm not wrong when I said you are a puppet? That you have no voice or choice in deciding?”
“Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.”

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