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Quote by Martine Leavitt

“Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.”

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Martine Leavitt is an American author born in 1953. Her works are known for their unique perspective and profound emotional depth, spanning from children's literature to adult fiction. more

“To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature...yes, that's it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are - vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth - and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.”

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Author:Muriel Barbery

“If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.”

World Art Values Rich Greatness Waste Bounds Works Of Art Surroundings No Money Borrowed Surrounded By Love

Author:Ernst Junger

“If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?”

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Author:Muriel Barbery

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