"Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately."

-- Eugene Ormandy

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“She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him to make her body unique, irreplaceble. But he, too had drawn an equal sign between her and the rest of them: he kissed them all alike, stroked them all alike, made no, absolutely no distiction between Tereza's body and the other bodies. He sent her back to the world she tried to escape, sent to march naked with the other naked women”
“Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.”

Source : Hans Christian Andersen (1867). “Hans Andersen's fairy tales, a new tr. by mrs. Paull”, p.220
“We learn to face the reality and the pain of our loss, to say good-bye to the dead loved one, to restore ourselves, and to reinvest in life once again.”

Source : Judy Tatelbaum (2009). “The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief”, p.7, Harper Collins
“I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.”
“It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day, this is the work of genius.”
“In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do”
“I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.”
“In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.”

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