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“One life is an absurdly small allowance.”

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Freya Stark, born on January 31, 1893, and died on May 9, 1993, was a renowned British explorer. She is best known for her expeditions in the Middle East, where she conducted in-depth research on local culture, history, and geography. more

“I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards.”

Knows Persons Enough Body Past Father Grows Realizing Childhood Birth This Life Time Travel Backwards Grandparent Stairs Puff Communes

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.”

World Years Firsts Persons Book War Particular Mets Defense Noses Fifteen Holmes Fifteen Years Fifteen Years Old

Book:Night Work

Source: Night Work

“I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks where I am not, who will remain standing when I die.”

Hate Dies Walks Forget Walking Standing I Hate Remains Forgiving Silent Calm Manage

Author:Juan Ramon Jimenez

“To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.”

Inspirational Education

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.”

Humans Doe Sometimes Light Night Sea Drink Lows Wine Slave Clouds Fishes Celebrate Evening Being Human Royal Tasting Evening Light

Author:Rumi

“As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.”

Way Want Humans Children Doe Wish Human Beings Powerful Mindfulness Kitten Mindless

Book:Always coming home

Source: Always coming home

“There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.”

Pleasure Mass Envy Scales Envied

Book:The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

Source: The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

“They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.”

Chiefs Vocation

Book:The Luxe

Source: The Luxe

“As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.”

Important Red Important Days

Author:Anna Godbersen

“Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.”

Wells Unconventional

Book:The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

Source: The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

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