"I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are days when I feel I have been able to grasp all there is know in one single gaze, as if invisible branches suddenly spring out of no where, weaving together all the disparate strands of my reading. And then suddenly the meaning escapes, the essence evaporates and no matter how often I reread the same lines they seem to flee ever further with each subsequent reading and I see myself as some mad old fool who thinks her stomach is full because she's been reading the menu."

-- Muriel Barbery

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“Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped â€” to reach it. For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.”

Source : "Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk - A Study in Social Evolution".
“I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.”
“For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.”

Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2013). “Carmilla: A Critical Edition”, p.50, Syracuse University Press
“I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e., "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece."”

Source : "An interview with Antonis Samaras, Greek prime minister, on austerity and unrest". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.washingtonpost.com. September 14, 2012.
“Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.”
“Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.”
“I work hard and support myself.”
“But, I don't belong to anyone...but myself.”

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