QUOTES by Diane Ackerman
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"Selves will accumulate when one isn’t looking, and they don’t always act wisely or well."
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"Music, the perfume of hearing, probably began as a religious act, to arouse groups of people."
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"Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. But they are shapes, they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception."
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"Without memories we wouldn't know who we are, how we once were, who we'd like to be in the memorable future. We are the sum of our memories."
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"The senses don’t just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern."
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"What sort of stewards of the future planet will today’s digital children be?"
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"They spend their whole lives yelling at the world and each other. They yell at their loved ones, they yell at their enemies, they yell at their dinner, they yell at the big bustling world."
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"There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and turn it loose again, gently altered for having known us."
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"Writing, which is my form of celebration and prayer, is also my form of inquiry."
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"I do feel responsible. He used to be able to look after himself. Now he can't. That's so different, so strange. The big question is: Is more improvement really possible, or should I stop pushing him?' [p. 153]"
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"A good strategy should dictate the right actions. Any action mustn't be impulsive, but analyzed along with all its possible outcomes. A solid plan always includes many backups and alternatives."
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"In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds."
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"Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph again!"
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"It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between."
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"Our lives together, our duet, also continues to evolve, and even if we can’t go back to how it was, we’re designing a good life for us, in spite of everything."
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"Antonina felt convinced that people needed to connect more with their animal nature, but also that animals long for human company, reach out for human attention."
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"Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death."
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"The Germans have removed, murdered or burned alive tens of thousands of Jews. Out of the three million Polsih Jews, no more than 10 percent remain."
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"Sometimes with a flutter of agitated worry that felt like a beetle was trapped inside my ribs. p. 90"
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"Still, though no one is an island, most are peninsulas. Our lives wouldn't make sense without personal memories pinned like butterflies against the velvet backdrop of social history."
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"Insight roams the sea of the unconscious like the Loch Ness monster, a rumor whose wake occasionally becomes visible, but even then it's mystifying and scarcely believed."
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"It's like having a head full of holes, in which the perfect repository of words have shamed themselves," he lamented."
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"God may promise not to destroy creation, but it is not a promise humankind made - to our peril."
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"Germany's crime is the greatest crime the world has ever known, because it is not on the scale of History: it is on the scale of Evolution."
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"But who can say why two people become a couple, that small principality of mutual protection and regard? Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points."
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"No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae."
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."
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"Below us somewhere in the gelatinous phantasmagoria of churning blue, the whales wouldn't be much aware of the storm."
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"Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser."
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"Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. ... We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children .... [p. 15]"
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"How can love's spaciousness be conveyed in the narrow confines of one syllable?"
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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the lenght of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
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"We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention"
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"Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary."
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"For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?"
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"Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points."
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"To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit."
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"And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives."
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"Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?"
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