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A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could… — Hermann Hesse
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesnâ€™t return it you get mad at him.… — John Steinbeck
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling. — Ayn Rand
But in a country where you hang your dead up on walls and pride whether or not a man bears a javelin more than his… — Shannon Hale
It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream… — Daniel Handler
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its… — Khalil Gibran
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find… — Cornelia Funke
Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even… — R A Salvatore
The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim… — Elizabeth Gilbert
If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone… — William H. Gass
She was tired of hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping that… — Cecelia Ahern
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other -… — Albert Einstein
Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't… — C.S. Lewis
There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times,… — Carl Jung
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the… — Emanuel Swedenborg
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return. — Simone de Beauvoir
It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug… — Langston Hughes

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