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“...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.”

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte is a renowned Spanish novelist known for his historical novels and adventure stories. His works blend literary value with entertainment, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment. Like you're the center of the clock, the axis on which the hands turn. Time moves about you but never moves you. It has lost its ability to affect you. What is it they say? That time is theft? But not for you. Close your eyes and you can start all over again. Conjure up that necessary emotion, fresh as roses.”

People Different Moments Hands Eye Moving Turns Three Lost Ability Perfect Emotion Like You Rose Clock Just One Rebirth Three Things Theft Singularity Axes

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.”

Ifs Trying Matter Enough Moments Next Millions Lists Over You Absurdity Abstraction Items Trust Me Keep Trying Things That Matter Only Thing That Matters

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.”

Way Believe Lying Nice Wounds Heal Memento Mori

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.”

Giving Littles I Can Feelings Seems Grief Too Much Pure Empty Starting Smoke Settling Little Time Settling Down Grief Observed

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)”

World Mind May Whole Joy Left Stars Water Born Behinds Poverty Air Land Fields Holy Clothes Casts Whole World Forests Ashes Easter Rebirth Left Behind Hereafter Resumes Epitaph Easter Day Lenten

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}”

Feels Doe Fear Opposites Disconnected

Book:Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

“Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.”

Kindness Objects Roots

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They would not affect him now. The fact of his own survival burned inside him, a talisman against them, as though his father's stag kept guardian in his heart.”

Heart Facts Father Heard Tree Survival Breaths Mentor Burned Chill Guardian Talismans Stags Dementors

Author:J. K. Rowling

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