"Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?"

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D. H. Lawrence

#Love You Quotes #Half Quotes #Know Yourself Quotes

“I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress”, p.300
“[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.”
“We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.”

Source : Karen Traviss (2011). “Hard Contact: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.165, Del Rey
“When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.”
“At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.”

Source : "Mayor Ed Lee: ‘Tech Workers Are Not Robots’". Interview with Willy Staley, www.nytimes.com. November 12, 2013.
“I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I know a lot of people don't like geometry, but for me it's fun.”
“Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.”
“And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber.”

Source : James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.66, Penguin

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