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“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”

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Michael Ondaatje, born on September 12, 1943, is a renowned Canadian novelist. His works are known for their unique narrative style and profound emotional expression, with notable titles including 'In the Skin of a Lion' and 'The English Patient'. more

“He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.”

Way Littles Helping Running Young House Rooms Building Forgotten Partners Yards Chamber Gloom Gloomy Building Up Deceased Hide And Seek Playing Hide And Seek

Book:CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated): A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man, Sketches by Boz, Mudfog Papers, Reprinted Pieces, Pearl-Fishing, Christmas Stories, Child's Dream of a Star, Holiday Romance…

Source: CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated): A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man, Sketches by Boz, Mudfog Papers, Reprinted Pieces, Pearl-Fishing, Christmas Stories, Child's Dream of a Star, Holiday Romance…

“[Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love" [Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it.”

Thinking Needs Grandma Plums Stephanie Plum Grandma Mazur

Author:Janet Evanovich

“I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.”

Knows Want Believe Kind Self House I Believe Glad Welcome Cures Serenity

Author:Edith Wharton

“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”

Life Wisdom Forget Understood Philosopher Backwards Propositions

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.”

Dream Dies Wish Poor Tears Crosses Fancy Followers Sigh

Book:A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format

“There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart--God made us in such a way that we can never be truly satisfied with anything or anyone less than Himself”

Men Way Heart Made Earth Faces Longing Satisfied

Book:Lies Women Believe/Companion Guide for Lies Women Believe- 2 book set

Source: Lies Women Believe/Companion Guide for Lies Women Believe- 2 book set

“And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.”

Eye Sleep Company Mines Sorrow Stealing Shut Up

Book:The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes

“Do you know who you are? God made you a woman. Accept His gift. Don't be afraid to be feminine and to add physical and spiritual loveliness to the setting where He has placed you. You are a child of God. You are a part of the bride of Christ. You belong to the King--you are royalty. Dress and conduct yourself in a way that reflects your high and holy calling. God has called you out of this world's system--don't let the world press you into its mold. Don't think, dress, or act like the world; inwardly and outwardly, let others see the difference He makes in your life.”

“Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!”

Stills House Sleep Murder Cried Macbeth Sleep Darkness In Macbeth

Author:William Shakespeare

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