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“Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation to our own world perception and set of values.”

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Amalia Kahana-Carmon

Amalia Kahana-Carmon, born in 1926, is an accomplished author known for her diverse works and profound insights into human emotions. more

“Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a moment of truth. It is a moment of revelation, as when the right ray of sun penetrates through the right window pane, and falls with the right slant on one picture in the museum.”

Humans Two Moments Fall Sun Fields Window Attraction Encounters Revelations Museums Rays Penetrate Embodiment Magnetic Moment Of Truth Window Panes Magnetic Fields

Author:Amalia Kahana-Carmon

“The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.”

Men Book Reading He Man Improvement Books And Reading

Author:Jonathan Daniels

“The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.”

Political Animal Bird Ostriches

Author:Pierre Daninos

“If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!”

Ifs Firsts Believe Said Would Be Animal Dog Cry Majors Noble London Britain Believe In Me Founders Towers Pope Vessel Great Britain Submarines Westminster

Author:Pierre Daninos

“English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their decorations, their sorrows, their talents, their achievements, and even their names.”

Feelings Life Is Names Talent Huge Sorrow Achievement Balls Income Addresses Hobbies Participants Decoration Masquerade

Author:Pierre Daninos

“One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.”

Moments Enjoy Ability Feet Complexes British Soil Superiority Foreigners Inferiority Inferiority Complex

Author:Pierre Daninos

“To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.”

Men Soul Dies Accounts Gentleman Spite Climbs Everest Domes Sciatica

Author:Pierre Daninos

“Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings.”

Walks Bird Wings

Author:Antoine-Marin Lemierre

“It is a profound mistake to think that every thing has been discovered; as well think the horizon the boundary of the world.”

Thinking World Wells Has Beens Mistake Discovery Profound Boundaries Horizon

Author:Antoine-Marin Lemierre

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