"And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades later and are found at the edge of the moraine, a few polished bones and a pair of hobnailed boots."

-- W. G. Sebald

#Ice Quotes #Pairs Quotes #Boots Quotes

“And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.”

Source : 'Journeys and Places' (1937) 'Hölderlin's Journey'
“I believe in status symbols.”
“Godâ€™s love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve love. It is simply always there.”
“I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical research has for me derives from structural formulae. When reading chemical journals, I look for formulae first.”

Source : Donald J. Cram (1990). “From Design to Discover :”, Amer Chemical Society
“The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.”

Source : Michael S. Harper (1977). “Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems”, p.37, University of Illinois Press
“A lawyerâ€™s either a social engineer or â€¦ a parasite on society â€¦ A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.”
“If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone.”
“In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.”

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