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1 " Mark Twain said that, outside of Vienna, all coffee was merely liquid poverty," Sarah commented. "
― Magnus Flyte ,
2 " Prayer. That was what people did when there was nothing else left to do. "
3 " Drug companies do not want us to dream this dream. But many people who are ill reject it as well. The responsibility of being your own cure is too much. Historically, people have been willing to subject themselves to the most poisonous of treatments rather than change themselves. In other words, meditation is hard, but pills are easy, and they feel reassuringly more like science. "
4 " You cannot hear the birds for all the gossip. "
5 " At Harvard, you could tell if a girl would sleep with you by her poster. Modigliani--si. Klimt--no. "
6 " (You think you know suffering? What about life before dishwashers? Washing machines? Tampons? Vacuum cleaners? You have no idea. No idea!) "
7 " If you want to make sure something is done correctly, you must do it yourself. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again. A stitch in time saves nine. Twinkle, twinkle little star. Life is but a dream! "
8 " Beethoven had once sneered in a letter that “so long as an Austrian can get his brown ale and his little sausages, he is not likely to revolt. "
9 " Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to escape marriage. "
10 " Don’t put such stock in this physical body. It’s not what lasts. Love is what matters. You know that. That’s what the visions have shown you, isn’t it? Passion, in all its forms, that’s what endures. "
11 " We have had enough death. Enough pain. It is time to find room in our hearts for love. Let us drink to love. "
12 " We live, we love, we die. Like the distant suns whose explosions sent the elements to the earth that form our bodies, we blaze and then fade, our energy repurposed to other forms. As above, so below. "
13 " She had also seen the saint’s tomb—a mind-boggling tribute to what the Baroque could do when it got its hands on a shitload of silver—in St. Vitus’s Cathedral. "
14 " Geniesse das Leben ständig! Du bist länger tot als lebendig!' {Constantly enjoy life! You're longer dead than alive!} "