"By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency."

-- Steven Galloway

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“It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.”
“I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.”
“By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.”
“When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.49, Canongate Books
“All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.”

Source : "Imelda and the Clans: A Story of the Philippines" by Beatriz Romualdez Francia, Solar Publishing Corporation, (p. 510), 1988.
“I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.”
“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”
“Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.”

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