"laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears ..."

-- Margaret Oliphant

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“We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”
“You know, girls in general are scarier than Voldemort,”
“I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I don't know. It depends. I don't think the woods are full of candidates today.”
“In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading these pages is like living them. Only as I closed the book did I sadly realize that Georgette and Ann weren't my neighbors. But happily I can revisit them again, and again, in this beautiful and absorbing novel.”
“Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.29, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.”
“In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.”
“The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.”

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