"Thatâ€™s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we donâ€™t want to talk about ourselves."

-- Will Schwalbe

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“The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.”

Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”
“In saffron-colored mantle from the tides Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light TO gods and men.”
“There's only one thing that's impossible to beat... a man that doesn't give up.”
“The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.”
“I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.”
“Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.”

Source : Peter Scott (2008). “There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage”, p.105, Penguin
“I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.”
“Your life is constantly nourished by your thoughts. Whatever the direction your life is moving, your thoughts have led you there.”

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