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#brooklyn

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“Just remember that sometimes, the way that you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.”

— John Green, Paper Towns

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“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”

— R. Arnold

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The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.

- Elisabeth Elliot

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“Todo homem é poeta quando está apaixonado.”

— Platão.

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“Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.” St. Augustine

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‘i was within and whithout. simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life’

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i am not the same person i was one book ago

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Islands in the Stream - Hemingway

#books #Hemingway

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“I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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"Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey."

- Ernest Hemingway

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"Lord, may I today go quietly about the work You have set me to do, trusting Your absolute control of my life, unafraid of what happens today, or what may happen tomorrow. I worship You, my Lord and my King. You are my strength."

- Elisabeth Elliot, The Music of His Promises

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“It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”     

 — Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“It turns out everywhere you go you take yourself, that’s not a lie” 

— Lana Del Rey, Fuck it I love you

“You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”       

 — Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“I don’t think I can explain the despair my surroundings inspired in me. Though I now suspect, given the circumstances and my disposition, I would’ve been unhappy anywhere, in Biarritz or Caracas or the Isle of Capri, I was then convinced that my unhappiness was indigenous to that place. Perhaps a part of it was. While to a certain extent Milton is right - the mind is its own place and in itself can make Heaven or Hell and so forth -”    

 — Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere.”

 — Louise Glück, from “Unpainted Door” in Poems 1962-2012

“I’ve been trying to go home my whole life—”  

— Chelsea Dingman, from “Psychogeography,” published in The Los Angeles Review

“Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I’m always missing someone or someplace or something. I’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing.” 

 — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.” 

— Naguib Mahfouz

“I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.” 

― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“I am always fleeing towards you. You are every place I’ve wanted to visit. You are every campsite, every sunrise, every mountain peak. I’ll pack my bags. I’ll bury under and set up shop inside you. I’ll write a sign and I’ll call it home”

— Azra.T., “That Boy”

“And then the music that starts at the window you’ll recognised as being the music that we first hear when we enter Longbourn at the very, very beginning of the film. And the reason why I used the same piece of music is because it would remind her of home. That finding the person you’re supposed to be with is like coming home. And that, even though this house is so completely different from her house, it’s the same spirit, the same music moves there”  

— Joe Wright director’s commentary (Pride and Prejudice 2005) 

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“You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

— Ernest Hemingway; The Sun Also Rises

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“When our plans are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable) “toward the goal of true maturity” (Rom 12:2).”

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Elisabeth Elliot