"I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment."

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Source : Clifford D. Simak (2011). “Cemetery World”, p.22, Hachette UK

Clifford D. Simak

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“He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.”

Source : George Herbert, Ann Pasternak Slater (1995). “The complete English works”
“For many years, I have kept in my office an ink drawing of two smiling figures with their arms around each other: Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, with the caption: "Jesus and Buddha must be very good friends." They are not the same, but they are friends, not enemies, and they are not indifferent to one another.”
“Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland.”

Source : Hu Jintao's Speech at Tibet's Peaceful Liberation, www.chinese-embassy.no. July 19, 2001.
“In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead”
“Sometimes I don't know what to say; the pain never stops. The cloud never goes away, the rain never drops”
“What ever we embrace eventually reveals the place we have been seeking.”
“My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor”
“There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.”

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