"I learnt too late that what is most……" — Luke Davies
"I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything."
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20 Quotes by Luke Davies
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The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.
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Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily…
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What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost…
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For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and…
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From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as…
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When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...
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The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so…
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If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all…
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In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and…
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Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.
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Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making.…
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You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just…
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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