"No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness."

-- Andre Gide

#Book Quotes #Heart Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.”
“The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money.”
“In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can't improve on these.”
“And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.”
“Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends - well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.”
“I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.”
“The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught by symbols, allegories, and lectures based upon fundamental truths, the observance of which tends to promote stability of character, conservatism, morality and good citizenship.”
“We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.”

Source : "Sonny Bono Killed In Skiing Accident", www.cnn.com. January 6, 1998.

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