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magicath’s Quotes

“This is the lesson: Great cities are like any other living things, being born and maturing and wearying and dying in their turn.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory

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“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: love

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“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

tags: paraphrase-of-congreve

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“FRAGMENT, I am a fragment of us. I am a fragment composed
of fragments. Mosaic, pastiche, ruin. Everyday
consciousness proposes lightbulb, ropeswing, teapot,
David Bowie, your sweater on, your sweater off, tomatillo,
all associated. Parts suggesting the whole
they long to be gathered into.”
― Rebecca Lindenberg, Love, an Index

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