"How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her."

-- Sarah Waters

#Air Quotes #Soul Quotes #Looks Quotes

“There is nothing love cannot face; there is limit to its faith, its hope and endurance.”
“Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.”

Source : Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1848). “The popular works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, tr., with a memoir of the author by W. Smith”, p.218
“Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.”
“It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.112, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.”
“Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.”

Source : Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.37, Rutgers University Press
“Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.”
“Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all nationalism contains elements of both, but Scotland is very far on the civic end of the spectrum. That is partly because nobody has ever been stupid enough to say that Scotland is an ethnicity in a genetic sense. A kingdom of Scotland existed long before anybody talked of a Scottish people. So that is one thing we have been spared.”

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