"I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them."

Source : John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

John Christopher

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“The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.”
“So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law - as it has been for years - that's not a shock. Democratic beliefs to the contrary are probably wishful thinking.”
“I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.”
“What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.”

Source : Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.125, VM eBooks
“Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.”

Source : Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.”
“But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?”
“In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.”

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.268, A&C Black

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