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1 " Rake your lifestyle. Gather all bitterness. Burn this bad attitude that has chocked the canals of your success. Be set free! "
― Israelmore Ayivor ,
2 " Who wants to see the Future, who ever does? A man can face the Past, but to think - the pillars crumbled, you say? And the sea empty, and the canals dry, and the maidens dead, and the flowers withered?" The Martian was silent, but then he looked ahead. " But there they are. I see them. Isn't that enough for me? They wait for me now, no matter what you say. "
3 " It’s ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used! "
― Israelmore Ayivor , Daily Drive 365
4 " I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home. "
― Graham Greene
5 " How fun it would be to bounce on the back of Lidewij Vliegenthart’s bike down the brick streets, her curly red hair blowing into my face, the smell of the canals and cigarette smoke, all the people sitting outside the cafés drinking beer, saying their r’s and g’s in a way I’d never learn. I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I’d never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can’t make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn’t see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. "
