"You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur."

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David Levithan

#Real Quotes #Giving Quotes #Tangible Quotes

“It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?”
“The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power.”

Source : Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.232, Routledge
“There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.”

Source : Ruth Rendell (2010). “A Sleeping Life: (A Wexford Case)”, p.25, Random House
“As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families.”
“Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.”
“I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet.”
“Talkers expand like bread dough.”
“Somebody once said it's the SOUL that matters”

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