"Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle."

-- Edmond Francois Valentin About

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“We're human beings and the sun is the sun-how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you”

Source : "Gwyneth Paltrow Under Fire For Quote About Sun Exposure". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2013.
“From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.”
“He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?”
“The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.”

Source : Laird Barron (2007). “The Imago Sequence”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
“Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.”
“As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.”
“I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.”
“Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.' Yossarian knew what he meant. That's not what I meant,' Doc Daneeka said, as Yossarian began scratching his back.”

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