"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."

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Madeleine L'Engle

#Children Quotes #Stories Quotes #Way Quotes

“Days and moments quickly flying, Blend the living with the dead; Soon will you and IÂ be lying Each within our narrow bed.”

Source : Edward Caswall (1858). “The Masque of Mary and Other Poems”, p.220
“The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.”
“I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”
“The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.”

Source : "Theodore Zeldin - historian, philosopher". History Today, July 1999.
“I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.”
“The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before...”

Source : Frederic Morton (2014). “The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait”, p.20, Diversion Books
“There are two things to do about the gospel. Believe it and behave it.”
“We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.”

Source : A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Maharshi Ramana (1968). “Day by Day with Bhagavan: From a Diary of A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Covering March 16, 1945 to January 4, 1947”

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