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Me pregunto cómo sería el mundo si todos viviéramos realmente como si no hubiera mañana. ↗

— Judith Krantz

#novel #love

No sé, todavía qué es lo que separa el aprecio del amor. ↗

— Jane Austen

#novel #love

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue. ↗

— Hegel

#economics-philosophy #hegel #innovative #interesting #philosophy

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ↗

— allan chaimers

#happiness #hope #love

A true artist willingly removes their heart, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back--bruised and aching--to continue improving due to the all-consuming obsessive love for their art. ↗

— H.G. Mewis

#h-g-mewis #true-artist #art

But these vague whisperings may arise from Mr. Snagsby's being, in his way, rather a meditative and poetical man; loving to walk in Staple Inn in the summer time; and to observe how countrified the sparrows and the leaves are... and to remark (if in good spirits) that there were old times once, and that you'd find a stone coffin or two, now, under that chapel, he'd be bound, if you was to dig for it. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this kind of guilt worked. Intellectually, he already knew that. It was his emotions that were tripping him up. The tangle of love and memory and what might have been. ↗

— Charles de Lint

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Die Maisonne schien hell durch das schmale Giebelfenster; Staub rieselte in glitzernden Fäden von den Balken. Die zirpenden Töne wiegten sich darauf, und die kleine, sehnsüchtige Melodie drang in jede Nische. ↗

— Lilach Mer

#love #melodie #sehnsucht #staub #love

- Azilis mourra. Niniane est immortelle. Comme moi. Le temps des pierres... ↗

— Valérie Guinot

#eternity #love #love

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so. ↗

— Louise Brown

#child #children #escape #found #had