"Reading is the last act of secular prayer."

-- Richard Powers

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“I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring.”
“The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.”

Source : "Man's Fate". Book by André Malraux, 1933.
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“You think that it must be great to be Superman but it's also hard to be Superman, especially when growing up.”

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“Donâ€™t worry about things. Donâ€™t push. Just do your work and youâ€™ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.”
“Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.”

Source : John Hay (1916). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay: Including Many Poems Now First Collected”
“Even the most loyal viewers of a show would only watch one out of three episodes. As someone who made television, I always found that hard to believe because you want to believe people who love your show are watching every episode, but statistically it was true that people who considered themselves the most loyal viewers were only watching one out of three.”
“It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics ... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.”

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