"Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine."

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“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”

“A poem round and perfect as a star.”

“Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire.”

“The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.”

“Everything is sweetened by risk.”

“Essays by Alexander Smith at Quotidiana.org”

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"I went outside, tripping over slabs of sunshine the size of towns. The sun was like a crowd of people, it was a party, it was music. The sun was blaring through the walls of the houses and beating dow…"

— Jeanette Winterson

Literature1959

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"Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time."

— Max Planck

Science1858–1947

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"I have already made it clear that there is an atmosphere of complete peace in the country. This country has never been intolerant and won’t be so in the future too."

— Arun Jaitley

Politics1952–2019

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"For if they imagine infinite spaces of time before the world, during which God could not have been idle, in like manner they may conceive outside the world infinite realms of space, in which, if any o…"

— Augustine of Hippo

Philosophy354–430

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