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• That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Secret, Belief

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• Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One’s own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter.

  Surya Das

  People, Decision, May

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• For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you.

  Sharon Shinn

  Stars, World, All That Remains

  Sharon Shinn (1997). “Archangel”, p.285, Penguin

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• Passion goes, Boredom remains.

  Coco Chanel

  Passion, Boredom

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• A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

  Joseph Conrad

  Lying, Writing, Eye

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Duel, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.4130, e-artnow

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• We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we've read before we can say anything. Silence is our guarantee of intimacy. We might have finished reading but we`re still living the book.

  Daniel Pennac

  Book, Reading, Silence

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• Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can’t make anything.

  Italo Calvino

  Jam, Pieces, Bread

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• People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

  Paolo Giordano

  People, Choices, Coincidence

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• When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Karma, Heartbreak

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.176, A&C Black

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• All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break. And besides, if the sisters are gone and only the beloved remains with his dense curls and his lips, how safe are you then? You have to have him or you will die if the sisters are gone with their listening ears and their feet to rub and their bodies to dress and their shared loneliness.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Girl, Loneliness, Heart

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• What remains is solitude.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Solitude

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene”, p.241, Open Road Media

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• And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Book, Reading

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

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• The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Sky, Clouds

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• It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Like Nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Space, Long

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.65, Vintage Canada

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• Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Sea, Two, World

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.103, Del Rey

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• So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Zero, New York, Cities

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• One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Existentialism, Pupils

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.120, Penguin

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• There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a princess in a fairy tale, waiting at the top of her tower for someone to ride up and rescue her. Not that traditional princess behavior was like Isabelle at all. Isabelle with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Lakes, Hair

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which is not translated into words or images, that which remains concealed and unverified, which is perhaps why we do recount so much or even everything, to make sure that nothing has ever really happened, not once it's been told.

  Javier Marías

  Shining, Truth Is, Concealed

  Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa (2000). “A Heart So White”, p.186, New Directions Publishing

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• No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Darkness, Ignorant

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• Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Males, Generations, Flattery

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• The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. --Doroga

  Jim Butcher

  Choices, Enemy, Stronger

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Academ's Fury”, p.144, Penguin

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• When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

  John McPhee

  Ocean, Moving, Writing

  "Basin and Range". Book by John McPhee, 1981; reprinted in his book "Annals of the Former World", 1998.

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• The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart….. I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house….. But the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house; I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Heart, Agony

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”

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• Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

  Harlan Coben

  Broken, Reason, Break

  Harlan Coben (2008). “Hold Tight”, p.289, Penguin

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