If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
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Criss Jami
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.
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Helen Exley
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
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Jonathan Safran Foer
According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people. In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made...
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Haruki Murakami
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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Cesare Pavese
More Quotes By Julie Otsuka
Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.
Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs.
We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.
It would be autumn, and our fathers would be out threshing in the fields. We would walk through the mulberry groves, past the big loquat tree and the old lotus pond, where we used to catch tadpoles in the spring. Our dogs would come running...
Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?
