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“So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.”

Quote by Michael Ondaatje

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Michael Ondaatje

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

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“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the head table, held together by a familiar rhetoric. Those who already have power continue to glide along the familiar rut they have made for themselves.”

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Book:The Cat's Table

Source: The Cat's Table

“Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.”

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“It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.”

Book:The Tea Rose

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“i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.”

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Book:The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]”

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“Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of the nation, where "sovereignty" denotes the task of any state to preserve and protect its own territoriality.”

Source: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

“Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.”

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Book:The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland

Source: The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland

“I’d kill for you, Kylie Galen. But more than that, I’d die for you.” She felt a tear roll down her cheek. “You’d better not die on me, Lucas Parker.”

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“From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.”

Book:Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic)

Source: Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic)

“When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?”

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Book:Out of the Silent Planet

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