Because that world's gone. The world where people walked around whistling that music. All the madrigal singers in the world can't make that other one real again. It's like dinosaurs. We can put them back together perfectly, bone for bone, but we don't know what they smelled like, what kind of sounds they made, or how big they really looked standing in the grass under all those fossil fern trees. Even the sunlight must have been different, and the wind. What can bones tell you about a kind of wind that doesn't blow anymore?. Peter S. Beagle
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
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Amit Ray
If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.
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Nayyirah Waheed
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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Horace Walpole
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
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Criss Jami
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
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Carl Sagan
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Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
When I was alive, I believed – as you do – that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on...
