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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have…
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We all have appointments with the past.
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At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
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I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing…
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We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
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The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where?…
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To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the…
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Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed…
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The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually…
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Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity…
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades…
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
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Music fathoms the sky.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks…
— James Buchan
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
— Michael Caine
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You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve.…
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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There are a lot of guys out there now who know they are not working as hard as other people. I can't…
— Alberto Salazar
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For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is…
— Richard Baker
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The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing…
— James Earl Jones
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Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I…
— John Green
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I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is…
— Gabriel Byrne
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My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.
— John Green
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The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom…
— Pope John Paul II
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