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“Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.”
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“I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.”
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“Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but multitudes everlastingly by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life.”
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“The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid, uninteresting, petty, and chaotic. It is difficult to bear the resultant feeling of emptiness, and the vacuum of our minds may only too easily be filled by some big, fantastic notion - political or otherwise - which suddenly seem to illumine everything and to give meaning and purpose to our existence. It needs no emphasis that herein lies one of the great dangers of our time.”
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“I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself.”
Source : "Jennifer Aniston talks tabloids and staying normal in Hollywood". Q&A, www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2014.
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“The one who follows the thought is also a thought! The one who follows the thought IS in thought. When you know that both are thoughts, you are home. You are not at home, you ARE home. Then allow thoughts to arise and allow them to be followed. You remain as That unmoved and unconcerned Being. This is the highest understanding.”
Source : H. W. L. Poonja (2000). “This: Prose and Poetry of Dancing Emptiness”, p.51, Weiser Books
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“As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.”
Source : "Bill Nighy: 'I'm greedy for beauty'". Interview With Nigel Farndale, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2015.
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“From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette”