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“As a child, there is a moment when we see him for the very first time, and he has always been there but finally we know, but as an adult, we never believe, we close our eyes because we are too afraid and he is …” quote by Claire North — Download Open image

““As a child, there is a moment when we see him for the very first time, and he has always been there but finally we know, but as an adult, we never believe, we close our eyes because we are too afraid and he is …””

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“She smiled and understood my meaning without it needing to be said. She leaned in close and murmured in my ear, ‘The world is…

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“alone with the endless morning, and knew that the world was beautiful beyond naming.”

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“My loss of faith was not revelatory, nor intensely distressing. It was a prolonged growth of resignation, one which the events of my life…

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“Everyone who dies was once a child; every child once had a dream of something else; every child must die. It is important to…

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“No one’s really racist any more, just as no one’s really sexist. They’ve just got their view about things, you see.”

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“If you forget the joy of this day, then what joy you give to others will also be forgotten, and your life has no…

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“Until you have not been free, you cannot understand what freedom means.”

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“What I don’t understand is that when the British public voted to name a research vessel Boaty McBoatface, the government said no. But when…

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“She was crying, silently, holding my arm, crying. I let her cry a while, held her close, felt her snot and tears on my shoulder, wanted to cry myself, why is that, when I hear a child cry on the train it makes me sad, see a stranger weep and feel tears come to my eyes, a weakness, perhaps, a…

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“Time was simple, is simple. We can divide it into simple parts, measure it, arrange dinner by it, drink whisky to its passage. We can mathematically deploy it, use it to express ideas about the observable universe, and yet if asked to explain it in simple language to a child - in simple language which is not deceit, of course…

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“As a boy, I grew up in a time of invention, of aspiration and wonderful dreams, and to be a scientist, a doctor, an engineer—these things were considered the greatest paths man could take. We walked on the moon and the world as a collective creature breathed a sigh of wonderment and delight, one species, one dream, a dream of…

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“No, it’s … sometimes it’s that, but sometimes … I’m sent for an idea. In Greenland I was sent for a man, but I think I was sent also for the ice, because it was melting and the world will change, and in Syria the dead were dead already and I was sent for a poet who had become ……

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