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“It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark.”

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A. S. Byatt

A. S. Byatt is a celebrated British novelist, recognized for her intricate narratives and literary style. Born on August 24, 1936, she has made substantial contributions to literature with her distinctive voice and storytelling. more

“My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.”

Source: Annotated Island of Doctor Moreau with English Grammar Exercises: by H.G. Wells (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.”

Humans Heart Seems White Cities Brain Alive Summer Stones Hot Smell Flesh Weather Extras Nerves Wire Skulls Sour Exposing Hot Weather

Author:Truman Capote

“He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.”

People Knows Ends Matter Always Alone

Book:The Swan Thieves

Source: The Swan Thieves

“Recently abandoned women can be complicated.”

Complicated Abandoned

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.”

People Thinking Faster Bike Politically Correct

Author:David Byrne

“In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.”

Ifs Knows Stills Romance Picks Lonely Edges Careful Ruins Enjoyed Now And Then Sharp Edges

Book:The Swan Thieves

Source: The Swan Thieves

“Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.”

Want Inspirational Motivational Spiritual Success Powerful What You Want Unlimited Power Doing What You Want

Author:Tony Robbins

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

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