"But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose."

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Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.107, tredition

Lafcadio Hearn

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“Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off...”

Source : Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.”

Source : Michael Marshall Smith (2010). “Only Forward (Voyager Classics)”, p.37, HarperCollins UK
“I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.”
“Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.”

Source : Letter to Christian Goldbach, April 17, 1712.
“Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.”
“Everything you do in war is a crime in peace”
“Bigger people beat up little people.”
“With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?”

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