155 Quotes by Nina George

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    Maybe our lives are nothing but stories that are being read by other people.

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    You’re a different person if you’ve been warmed by open fires rather than by central heating as a child, if you’ve climbed trees instead of cycling on the pavement with a helmet on, if you’ve played outside rather than sitting in front of the television.

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    I am the daughter of a tall, strong tree. My timber forms a ship, but it is anchorless, flagless. I set sail for the shade and the light; I drink the wind and forget all ports. To hell with freedom, gifted or seized; if in doubt, always endure alone.

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    To carry them within us – that is our task. We carry them all inside us, all our dead and shattered loves. Only they make us whole. If we begin to forget or cast aside those we’ve lost, then... then we are no longer present either.

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    Habit is a vain and treacherous goddess. She lets nothing disrupt her rule. She smothers one desire after another: the desire to travel, the desire for a better job or a new love. She stops us from living as we would like, because habit prevents us from asking ourselves whether we continue to enjoy doing what we do.

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    Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go out and greet those wonderful creatures and say a few nice words in a language invented by Tolkein. I’ve practiced, but I sound like Chewbacca making a New Year’s speech.

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    Reading – an endless journey; a long, indeed never-ending journey that made one more temperate as well as more loving and kind.

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    Sanary says that you have to travel south by water to find answers to your dreams. He says too that you find yourself again there, but only if you get lost on the way – completely lost. Through love. Through longing. Through fear. Down south they listen to the sea in order to understand that laughing and crying sound the same, and that the soul sometimes needs to cry to be happy.

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    Hesse’s Stage came to Perdu’s mind. Most people were familiar with the first line, of course: “In all beginnings dwells a magic force... ” but very few people know the ending: “For guarding us and helping us to live.” And hardly anyone realized that Hesse wasn’t talking about new beginnings. He meant a readiness to bid farewell. Farewell to old habits, Farwell to illusions. Farewell to a long-expired life, in which one was nothing but a husk, rustled by the occasional sigh.

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