"...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another..."

-- Jose Saramago

#Lying Quotes #Distance Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“There is no 'love of God' for you unless you have repented or unless you do repent. Make no mistake about this. Do not rely or bank on God's love. It is only for the penitent; there is no entry into the kingdom of God except by repentance.”
“My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.”

Source : "Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D.Simak". Book by Clifford D. Simak. Introduction, p. 9, 1977.
“And to remember both our triumphs and our missteps, our promises made and broken, the times we opened ourselves up to great adventures or closed ourselves down for fear of getting hurt, because that's what new year's all about, getting another chance, a chance to forgive. to do better, to do more, to give more, to love more, and to stop worrying about what if and start embracing what will be. so when that ball drops at midnight, and it will drop, let's remember to be nice to each other, kind to each other, and not just tonight but all year long.”
“Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.”
“When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think that this is the reason that this alienation has allowed us to see and regard land mostly as a resource. So we have created a problem for ourselves from the word "go," for land is not a resource any more than humans are resources.”
“Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.”
“Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.”

Source : Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.93, Penguin
“I wanted to imprint his touch, his taste, even the scent of him so solidly inside me that no one could take them away from me.”

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