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“... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me that if I lie still like this for long enough, then I'll be dead when I finally wake again, and nothing can ever again torment me, beset me, or present me with evidence of my baseness and decay. That thought is the only one that can comfort me.”
Source : Christer Kihlman (1990). “The blue mother”
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“Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.”
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“I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.”
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“happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.”
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“Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.”
Source : Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda (1991). “Insights of a Himalayan pilgrim”, Dharma Pub
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“England is the Mother of Parliaments”
Source : Speech, Birmingham, England, 18 Jan. 1865
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“I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your children, your grandchildren, and others, on through the generations. Each of us is important to those who are near and dear to us and as our posterity reads of our life's experiences, they, too, will come to know and love us. And in that glorious day when our families are together in the eternities, we will already be acquainted.”
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“My grandsons really love my apple cake, which is from my grandmother's recipe.”