"To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen.... But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments."

-- John Berger

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“Let me say that I don't see any conflict between science and religion. I go to church as many other scientists do. I share with most religious people a sense of mystery and wonder at the universe and I want to participate in religious ritual and practices because they're something that all humans can share.”
“What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.”

Source : Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot: A Novel”, p.7, Open Road Media
“We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.”
“Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.”
“We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?”
“It’s impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that would, only slightly less effectively, destroy Conan Doyle’s world.”
“Don't see haters as a reason to give up; instead see them as a sign that you are starting to become successful.”
“Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.”

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