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“She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.”
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“The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.”
Source : Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.130
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“If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.”
Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
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“Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.”
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“Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.”
Source : Khushwant Singh, Nandini Mehta (1993). “Not a nice man to know: the best of Khushwant Singh”
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“If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly       And my low spirits would brighten up.”
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“The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.”
Source : Arthur Twining Hadley (1807). “Baccalaureate Addresses, and Other Talks on Kindred Themes”, p.54
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“Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.