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• The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
• What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is…
• When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
• Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.
• Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
• When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and…
• Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.
• This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may…
• You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may…
• There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical…
• Why should anything happen when everything has happened?
• As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page…

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