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“For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.”

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Roland Smith is an American author known for his children's literature. His works often blend elements of adventure, fantasy, and realism, making them popular among young readers. more

“Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with cotton. I would hold it close to my face, so close I couldn't see anything but that blue. It would fill me with a feeling, a feeling I later tried to duplicate with alcohol and finally found again with Clare, a feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word.”

Feelings Faces Found Mom Blue Filled Unity Alcohol Butterfly Immense Oblivion Cotton Sydney Duplicate Ulysses

Book:The Time Traveler's Wife

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.”

People Humans Fighting Enjoy Rights Protect Tables Human Rights

Author:Wangari Maathai

“I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.”

Knows Want Feels Writing Moving Memories Forget Likes Why We Write

Author:Lloyd Jones

“The real hero is always a hero by mistake.”

Real Mistake Hero Heroic Cowardice Heroism Being A Hero Real Heroes Great Hero

Book:Travels in Hyperreality

Source: Travels in Hyperreality

“It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.”

Persons Imagine

Book:The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.”

Self Wanted Lost Loses Wonder Dieting

Book:3 Willows

Source: 3 Willows

“In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.”

Love Light Joy Spirit Prayer Saws Glory Wounds

Author:Saint Augustine

“And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes - you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love.”

Eye Fall Falling In Love Sorry Faded Ephemeral

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.”

People I Can Names Kindness Imagine Stranger Thanks Opera Dedication

Book:Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)

Source: Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)

“And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express”

Feels Lying Individual Oppressed

Author:Wilhelm Reich

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