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“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”
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“The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.”
― Neverwhere
― Neverwhere
“It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.”
― A Separate Peace
― A Separate Peace
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”
― Letter to My Daughter
― Letter to My Daughter
“But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.”
― A Separate Peace
― A Separate Peace
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